Is it possible to edit a summary after a commit using TortoiseHg?

Question

Occasionally I commit some code to the repository, add a comment/summary, then read the summary back and realise I've made a mistake or should have included a bit more information. It is possible to edit the summary after a commit in TortoiseHg? I'm using version 1.1

Answer 1

Use mercurial queues to convert the change-sets to patches, then strip those change-sets and re-apply the patches back to your repository.

When the patches are created, they are stored in the .hg/patches folder in your repository and you can edit these (including the commit message) before you re-apply them.

• Enabled the Mercurial Queues extensions (MQ)
• Right-click and select Import Revision to MQ for each change-set to convert them into patches in the patch queue
• Enable the patch queue window from the view menu
• Select the Un-apply All Patches arrow in the patch queue to strip the change-sets away
• Edit the patch files in .hg/patches
• Select Apply All Patches
• Right-click on the patch and select Finish Applied to close down the queue

Answer 2

If that is the last commit, you can press "Undo" button in the commit dialog (it is an interface to hg rollback) and then commit the same files again with a new message. If this is a commit in a middle of the tree, you need to use mq extension to delete all later commits and reapply them. And if the commit with an incorrect summary is pushed to a public repo, you should accept and live with that, because you should not change published commits.