changing repository history

[Benoit Boissinot]

On 8/31/07, Manlio Perillo <manlio_perillo at libero.it> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have two questions about how to "change" a repository history (of
> course during a clone)
>
> 1) Is it possible to modify commit messages?
>     I have some projects started as for personal use, with commit
>     messages in italian language, and I would like to convert them to
>     english.
>
> 2) Is is possible to exclude "sections" of a repository?
>     I have a repository converted from Subversion with this layout
>
>        |- branches
>     -A-|- trunk
>        |       |- a
>        |- tags
>
>        |- branches
>     -B-|- trunk
>        |       |- b
>        |- tags
>
> And I want to create a repository with the content only from A/trunk

It is not possible to change the history, everything is hashed
recursively so changing a single byte in the commit message will
invalidate the hash.

What you can do is use/hack convert to do that, with a hg -> hg
conversion (I believe you can already do the filtering, I'm not sure
what is the best way to do change the commit message).

regards,

Benoit