Graft can't collapse and rebase --collapse does not record all metadata

[Bryan Murdock]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Lawrence Stewart <lstewart at room52.net> wrote:
> Hi Bryan,
>
> On 01/28/15 11:51, Bryan Murdock wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Lawrence Stewart <lstewart at room52.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Any further thoughts from the community?
>>
>> Have you looked into the evolve extension for Mercurial?  It (among
>> other things) adds a fold command that combines multiple commits
>> together.  I'm not sure if it would meet all your requirements but
>> it's probably worth trying it to find out.
>
> I have not, but thanks for the suggestion. Do you know if it records the
> meta data of all folded changesets? If not, I would think it is no
> better than rebase --collapse?

I'm not clear on what meta data you want recorded.  It pops open your
editor with the commit messages of all folded changesets combined into
one commit message that you can then edit.  You can add your notes
about code reviews and whatnot at that point.  Any more than that I
wouldn't know.

Bryan