How can histedit be used to "reorder" changesets?

[Augie Fackler]

> On Sep 7, 2015, at 15:24, Benjamin Fritz <fritzophrenic at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy at grenoble-inp.fr <mailto:matthieu.moy at grenoble-inp.fr>> wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > The wiki for Histedit (
> > > https://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/HisteditExtension <https://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/HisteditExtension>) says "History rewriting
> > > works by reordering changesets so that they reflect a new ordering in the
> > > history graph"
> >
> > You can reorder the lines in the file to reorder the changesets.
> >
> 
> Oh geeze, that's embarrassingly simple.
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> But, can it add a second parent to a changeset to reflect a "merge" that was done manually instead of using an actual merge command? Or is there another tool that can do that aside from "hg convert"?

I'm not aware of such a tool other than convert. histedit's UI limits it to only really being useful on linear history, not history with merges.

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