Tests about metadataonlyctx $ hg init $ echo A > A $ hg commit -A A -m 'Add A' $ echo B > B $ hg commit -A B -m 'Add B' $ hg rm A $ echo C > C $ echo B2 > B $ hg add C -q $ hg commit -m 'Remove A' $ cat > metaedit.py < from __future__ import absolute_import > from mercurial import context, pycompat, registrar > cmdtable = {} > command = registrar.command(cmdtable) > @command(b'metaedit') > def metaedit(ui, repo, arg): > # Modify commit message to "FOO" > with repo.wlock(), repo.lock(), repo.transaction(b'metaedit'): > old = repo[b'.'] > kwargs = dict(s.split(b'=', 1) for s in arg.split(b';')) > if b'parents' in kwargs: > kwargs[b'parents'] = map(int, kwargs[b'parents'].split(b',')) > new = context.metadataonlyctx(repo, old, > **pycompat.strkwargs(kwargs)) > new.commit() > EOF $ hg --config extensions.metaedit=$TESTTMP/metaedit.py metaedit 'text=Changed' $ hg log -r tip changeset: 3:ad83e9e00ec9 tag: tip parent: 1:3afb7afe6632 user: test date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 summary: Changed $ hg --config extensions.metaedit=$TESTTMP/metaedit.py metaedit 'parents=0' 2>&1 | egrep '^RuntimeError' RuntimeError: can't reuse the manifest: its p1 doesn't match the new ctx p1 $ hg --config extensions.metaedit=$TESTTMP/metaedit.py metaedit 'user=foo ' $ hg log -r tip changeset: 4:1f86eaeca92b tag: tip parent: 1:3afb7afe6632 user: foo date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 summary: Remove A