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Amend a Mercurial commit without an editor window opening?

When I use mercurial command (hg commit --amend) it always opens up the editor window. In git I can avoid this by git commit -a --amend -CHEAD, is there something equivalent for mercurial?

Solution

  • There is an experimental extension that was added to mercurial 4.3.1 called 'amend'. It performs the same action as commit --amend with the exception of not opening an edit window for the comments.

    hg amend

    It is marked as experimental, but I use it fairly often without any problems.

    Also there is an unamend command that will 'undo the most recent amend operation on a current changeset'.