Can I edit the message of an older revision in Bazaar?
How can I edit an older revision's message to more correctly describe its changes? You cannot edit the commit message of an old revision without changing the revision id of the modified revision and all its descendants. Well... technically you can, if you try hard enough, but the technical term for the result is "corrupt repository". A repository in bzr is a replica of a distributed database of revisions, and if all replicas don't agree on the content of a revision, you have an integrity violation. Meaning, all bets are off, and the system will actively try to detect such situations and refuse