Change the author in Mercurial history

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I have a repository in Mercurial with a couple of months of history. In the history I can see the user in form FIRST_NAME SURNAME . My EMAIL changed in the meanwhile. Is it possible to "update" the history to this new email I have now?

See http://stackoverflow.com/a/19372945/2029699 and mq solution. It worked very well for me — Alexander K, Nov 11 '15 at 23:57
Not without recreating all those commits which will change their hashes. — DanMan, May 06 '22 at 15:06

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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If you have already published your history (pushed to a remote repo which can be cloned by others), then it wouldn't be recommended.

If not published, as explained in "Can I change the username on a mercurial changeset?", the --author parameter of the Convert Extension let you remap your author information, including the email.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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answered Aug 27 '12 at 06:07

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