How to batch-rewrite history

[Nikolaus Rath]

On Oct 08 2015, Dave S <snidely.too at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 2, 2015 2:04 PM, "Nikolaus Rath" <Nikolaus at rath.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would like to batch-edit a number of commits to automatically make
>> modifications to author and commit message (being able to apply a few
>> regular expressions would be fine).
>>
>> What's the easiest way to do that?
>
> Are you able to use the latest release of Mercurial?

Yes. What do you have in mind?

In the meantime, I found the following solution myself:

$ hg export -r <x>:tip -g -o archive.txt
$ #batch process archive.txt
$ hg strip <x>
$ hg import archive.txt

so far it seems to work. Are there any potential problems with that?


Best,
-Nikolaus

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