cannot run histedit, strange message

Uwe Brauer oub at mat.ucm.es
Fri May 7 15:27:27 UTC 2021


> On 7 May 2021, at 17.00, Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> wrote:

> Without more context, it's hard to tell what's going on; by default,
> histedit edits the draft ancestors, and one of them might indeed be a
> merge. However, I'd suggest two things:

> 1) You can edit specific commits by passing -r/--rev to histedit.
> 2) You can do more advanced history editing with the the evolve[1]
> extension. It includes a `metaedit` command that allows specifically
> editing changeset metadata, including commit message.

Ah thanks, I did not know about metaedit (I use evolve mostly because of
topics, but don't really know much more, so this is helpful, thanks)

Uwe 
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