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mercurialaliases
konikos
konikos

Reputation: 396

How to create an alias for a mercurial user?

I am looking for a way to create an alias for a user that has commited to a mercurial repository. For example, if there is a user named user1 I'd like every commit done by him to be under the name user2.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 596

Answers (1)

Ry4an Brase
Ry4an Brase

Reputation: 78330

If you're talking about changing the name that was already used for some commits, you can do that using hg convert with a source and destination type of hg and a --authors mapping file. However, in doing so you change the hash of every changeset, and if anyone has already cloned your repo you'll be hosing them.

If you're talking about commits to come, then just make them whatever you want using the -u option to hg commit.

Upvotes: 3

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