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Is there a way to edit a commit message in Mercurial on a commit after other commits have occured using TortoiseHg? I've read these posts:
How to edit incorrect commit message in Mercurial?
Mercurial: how to amend the last commit?
and have been able to update a "regular" commit message when it is the latest commit on a branch (using TortoiseHg). However, I haven't been able to figure out how to edit a commit message when other commits have occurred after the one I want to edit. It always edits the last commit.
Based on Ed Cottrell's comment, I did a test where I made two commits without pushing to the central repo, and I still have the same issue - only the last commit message can be edited.
EDIT: I should clarify that I am looking to update a changeset that has been pushed.
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Since version 2.2, the commit command has a --amend option that will fold any changes into your working directory into the latest commit, and allow you to edit the commit message. hg commit --amend can in fact be used on any changeset that is a (topological) branch head, that is, one that has no child changesets.
You can also use the --amend option to modify the list of files in the commit. Just use hg add and hg rm to modify the index, then make a hg commit --amend to re-commit the changes.
Histedit extension (bundled with TortoiseHG now) has a mess command for changing the commit message of historical changesets.
Unfortunately, this command is not supported by the TortoiseHG GUI so you need to run the command from command line.
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