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27.0.50; FR: support amend in vc-hg

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>, 34944 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34944: 27.0.50; FR: support amend in vc-hg
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2019 03:33:12 +0300

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On 22.03.2019 12:44, Philipp Stephani wrote:
> 
> The Git integration for vc.el supports amending commits via a magic
> changelog header.  Mercurial has the same functionality, see
> https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/EditingHistory#Amending_the_latest_changeset_with_commit_--amend.
> If would be great to support this in Emacs as well.  Maybe the Git
> approach could even move into main VC, and made available to all
> backends that support amending?

Here's a patch you can try (attached).

No backend API change necessary, so far.

Are there many backends that could support amending?

[vc-hg-amend.diff (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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