Mercurial: change username of some commits not yet pushed?

Here's how I would achieve my goal, it relies on mq

extension , the Mercurial patch queue. (Updated to include @ MarkTolonen's wonderful comment )

Step 0. Back up your work! (you can create a local drop clone to try this)

• Include the extension mq
  
  in your config files (see help here )
• use hg qimport
  
  to import the changes you want to change into the patch queue.
• use hg qpop -a
  
  to pull these patches from the applied patch of patches.
• press the first patch with hg qpush
  
  
• use hg qref -U
  
  to update the author of the patch to the current user (or use hg qref -u <username>
  
  to install it explicitly)
• repeat steps 4 and 5. for each patch in the queue.
• double check your work. Is your username correct in the log?
• use hg qfin -a
  
  to complete patches in changesets.
• you should now be ready to push the updated changes to the public repo

My initial steps involved manually configuring the user in a text editor instead of steps 4-6 above:

and. open the folder .hg\patches

, you should have a file ###.diff

for each changeset
B. open them in a text editor of your choice
C. edit the line at the top that starts with # User <your old user name>


 and update it as # User <your new user name>


D. save patches
E. use hg push -a

to put them back on the application stack