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How to deal with committer name change in Mercurial

On a new install, I forgot to set my username reasonably in my hg client. As a result, the last few commits have me listed as "Billy", rather than the "Billy O'Neal <[email protected]>" like I have been using.

Is there a way I can change these to make them consistent?

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  • This is just a joke: "How can I adjust history to suit my needs. Sounds like an election year". – DwB Mar 05 '12 at 00:43
  • @DwB: Lol -- seriously though. I don't want to change what happened in the commit; just the name associated with it. – Billy ONeal Mar 05 '12 at 01:01
  • I'm no mercurial expert, but a quick browse of [Mercurial: the definitive guide](http://hgbook.red-bean.com/) -- which is dated 2009 -- shows no way to change the name of the committer post commit. You might need to write an extension. – DwB Mar 05 '12 at 01:11
  • @BillyONeal: have you pushed to anywhere? If you have, you can't modify it at all. If you haven't, it's possible (though not friendly, but that's an article of Mercurial's design). – Chris Morgan Mar 05 '12 at 01:45
  • @ChrisMorgan - sorry, even published repo can be edited (technically), on pull/push into old clones they just get anonymous branch – Lazy Badger Mar 05 '12 at 07:23
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    [Answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/3950827/960558) with full command-line for convert for same question [How to deal with committer name change in Mercurial](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3950792/how-to-deal-with-committer-name-change-in-mercurial) – Lazy Badger Mar 05 '12 at 08:01
  • @LazyBadger: when I say "you can't", I don't mean that strictly it's impossible, but that it's unmanageable, unworkable, undesirable and werry nasty with unpleasant side-effects aplenty and the probability of breaking things. – Chris Morgan Mar 05 '12 at 09:06
  • @ChrisMorgan - **even I** see difference between "impossible" and "terrrible bad solution", sorry. And re-publish **is manageable, workable** with *side effects and headache* and only **undesirable and werry nasty**. In *this form* only I'll see real facts and status – Lazy Badger Mar 05 '12 at 11:18

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It is possible to edit history with extensions like mq and convert, but if you have pushed the commits, you'd have to edit every clone of your repository as well. If you are a small group of users that may be possible, but otherwise it is too late.

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