If you’ve not published your repository then this shouldn’t be too hard. You need to use the Convert extension to Mercurial, which will let you ‘filter’ your existing repository to create a new one. the –authors switch lets you edit the author for each commit as it is filtered. If you have published your repository, … Read more
Here’s what I’d do: Make default your “mainline” branch. The tip of this branch is the “currently released to the public” version of your code. Critical bugfixes can be committed directly to this branch and merged into development branches. To start working on version 2.0, make a 2.0-dev branch. Commit changes for 2.0 to that … Read more
Update your repository to the head with the revision that you want to forget about, then use hg commit –close-branch to mark that (anonymous) branch as closed. Then update to the head of the branch that you do want, and continue working. You can still see the closed branch if you use the -c option … Read more
You could use the Timestamp extension, if creating new “reference” timestamps will not be a problem. From its website: It does this by means of a database file .hgtimestamp, residing in the repo’s root and thus being versioned. Other than this, I don’t think it’s possible. I’ve read a little about Timestamp hook, and it … Read more
There is no simple / recommended way of doing this directly to an existing repository. You can however “convert” your mercurial repo to a new mercurial repo and choose a revision from where to include the history onwards via the convert.hg.startrev option hg convert –config convert.hg.startrev=1234 <source-repository> <new-repository-name> The new repo will contain everything from … Read more
I always use a combination of .hgignore and BeforeBuild (in the .csproj file) for things like this. In one of my pet projects, I have the following setup: App.config contains my real hardcoded user id and password for testing. App.config.example is identical, but with fake data like “dummy_user” and “dummy_pw”. App.config is not part of … Read more
The histedit extension is exactly what you are looking for. hg histedit -o or hg histedit –outgoing will bring up a list of the outgoing changesets. From the list you can Fold 2 or more changesets creating one single changeset Drop changesets removing them from the history Reorder changesets however you like. histedit will prompt … Read more