Histedit Extension

This extension is distributed with Mercurial 2.3 and later.

Author: Augie Fackler

In core since version 2.3

Contents

Overview
Configuration
Usage Scenario
For very old version (before 2012)
1. Configuration

1. Overview

History editing plugin for Mercurial, heavily inspired by git rebase --interactive.

It allows selecting (pick), combining (fold or roll), rejecting (drop), modifying (edit) or updating the commit message (mess) of already commited changesets.

2. Configuration

In versions of Mercurial after 2.3, enable the extension by adding the following lines to your configuration file:

[extensions]
histedit =

For older versions, you need to grab the extension source and then configure your configuration file to enable the extension by adding following lines:

[extensions]
histedit = ~/path/to/histedit/hg_histedit.py

3. Usage Scenario

The extension adds the histedit command, which takes a revision argument. All changesets from that revision and onwards are selected for history reordering and modification. They are presented as an ordered list with a changeset revision preceded by an action keyword for each line (action revision-id).

If you were to run hg histedit c561b4e977df for a repo with the history graph

@  3[tip]   7c2fd3b9020c   2009-04-27 18:04 -0500   durin42
|    Add delta
|
o  2   030b686bedc4   2009-04-27 18:04 -0500   durin42
|    Add gamma
|
o  1   c561b4e977df   2009-04-27 18:04 -0500   durin42
|    Add beta
|
o  0   d8d2fcd0e319   2009-04-27 18:04 -0500   durin42
     Add alpha

an editor would open containing the following text:

pick c561b4e977df Add beta
pick 030b686bedc4 Add gamma
pick 7c2fd3b9020c Add delta

# Edit history between c561b4e977df and 7c2fd3b9020c
#
# Commands:
#  p, pick = use commit
#  e, edit = use commit, but stop for amending
#  f, fold = use commit, but fold into previous commit
#  r, roll = use commit, but fold into previous commit and drop commit message
#  d, drop = remove commit from history
#  m, mess = edit message without changing commit content
#
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

History rewriting works by reordering changesets so that they reflect a new ordering in the history graph, or by changing the desired action to take on each changeset. The possible actions are one of pick, fold, edit, drop and mess:

pick: Simply accepts the changeset as is. This is the default action.
fold: Combines a changeset with the previous changeset in the list and opens an editor to edit the commit message.
roll: Similar to fold, this combines the changeset with the previous changeset in the list, but drops the commit message and uses the commit message of the previous commit.
edit: Drops to the command prompt, allowing to edit files freely to commit some changes as a separate commit. When done, any remaining uncommitted changes will be committed as well. When done, run hg histedit --continue to finish this step or hg histedit --abort to abandon the new changes and keep the previous state.
drop: Removes the changeset from history.
mess: Invokes an editor to allow editing the commit message without changing commit content

When changes lead to conflicts then the user is dropped to the command prompt and has the very same options as when the edit action is selected. To accept new changes the hg histedit --continue command is used and to drop them the hg histedit --abort one.

See http://bitbucket.org/durin42/histedit/src/tip/README for a more detailed explanation.

4. For very old version (before 2012)

$/!\$ This extension is shiped with mercurial since Mercurial 2.3 (2012) $/!\$

If you an older version, you should upgrade.

If you really can't upgrade.

Repository: https://bitbucket.org/durin42/histedit/ $/!\$ for version 1.3 to 2.2 only $/!\$

Works with: Mercurial 1.3 and beyond (tests are run against versions seen in the Makefile.)

4.1. Configuration