[PATCH] histedit: remove history_source

[Augie Fackler]

On Jul 30, 2014, at 2:54 PM, Siddharth Agarwal <sid at less-broken.com> wrote:

> On 07/30/2014 11:21 AM, Pierre-Yves David wrote:
>> 
>> This change is actually useful for at least two things:
>> 
>> 1) keeping relevant meta data when using --keep
>> 2) Ensuring the a pure happen only history creation. A property hihgly critical to any distributed system
>> 
>> Doesn't git have a way to quietly store arbitraty metadata?
> 
> There are Git notes, but they're not an input to the commit hash so storing hg metadata in there would mean hg-git loses its 1:1 mapping between Mercurial and Git revisions. Other than that I'm not aware of anything.

I did just notice that a noop histedit seemed to rewrite shas - that's definitely a bug that we should fix.

(I was in the middle of a big project, so I didn't pursue it when I saw it.)
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