changing commit comments

[Martin Geisler]

Hans Meine <meine at informatik.uni-hamburg.de> writes:

> Am Dienstag, 15. Juli 2008 11:47:12 schrieb Peter:
>> Is there an easy way to change a commit comment to correct a spelling
>> error after the commit?
>
> I usually use "hg rollback" and the repeat the commit (which is easy since I 
> changed my habit to use the -m argument to commit).
>
> But I would be very interested in a general solution. Unfortunately,
> I am not sure if it is possible to do so without changing the
> revision names (IIRC the commit message is included in the hash?);

Correct -- that is what makes it impossible to change an old commit
message without making the following commits change their hashes.

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Martin Geisler

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