commands: introduce a new command to edit commit metadata This patch introduces metaedit, a command to metadata of a set of revisions without updating the working copy. This is particularly relevant for repositories where changing the parent of the working copy is time-consuming. We could add more stack manipulation operations to metaedit in the future.

evolve: factor out check for creating unstable commits This check is pretty non-trivial, and we do it in two places already. We're going to do it in a third place soon.

evolve: factor out sanity checks for folds We're going to use the same checks in another context in an upcoming patch.

evolve: include node, rev, desc, and phase in list

evolve: use hex in list output

py3: use items() instead of iteritems()

py3: change except from two comma to as notation

py3: tolerate io/StringIO divergence

split: rewrite the pre-split commit message I find this wording slightly clearer.

open mercurial-3.7 compat branch

readme: add various missing parts

hgignore: add an ignore rule for test timing Modern tests runner store a record of last test run timing. We properly ignore it.

tests: change quoting pattern to match core's conventions This patch modifies two tests to match new quoting patterns used in core: (use "hg config --edit" to set your username) becomes (use 'hg config --edit' to set your username) and (use hg resolve and hg graft --continue) becomes (use 'hg resolve' and 'hg graft --continue')

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