Is it possible to manually change/reorder the revision numbers (provided topology remains the same)?

Question

In Mercurial , revision numbers are local-clone specific, and they are provided as a facility to point to a specific changeset in a more user-friendly way than a changeset i

Answer 1

As others are saying, it's possible, but probably not worth the work, since it would be local to your clone (and any clones of your clone). It's not something you could push to a remote repository w/o deleting everything there first, and even if you did that the people who had clones from that remote repository locally would see "no changes" when they pulled.

That said, if you want to try you just need to use a series of hg pull -r REV commands into a new clone. Something like this:

hg init my_reordered_clone
cd my_reordered_clone
hg pull -r d84b1 ../un_reordered_clone
hg pull -r 6d269 ../un_reordered_clone
hg pull -r bb9e4 ../un_reordered_clone

Clearly that's too much work to be worth it for aesthetic purposes, but the concept there is that when you pull with -r you get that changeset and all of its ancestors, so if you do your pulls at the points where anonymous branches merged one at a time, you'll be pulling only the additional changesets from that line of development.