hg
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Name
hg - Mercurial source code management system
Synopsis
hg command [option]... [argument]...
Description
Mercurial Manual HG(1)
NAME
hg - Mercurial source code management system
SYNOPSIS
hg command [option]... [argument]...
DESCRIPTION
The hg command provides a command line interface to the Mer-
curial system.
COMMAND ELEMENTS
files...
indicates one or more filename or relative path file-
names; see File Name Patterns for information on pat-
tern matching
path indicates a path on the local machine
revision
indicates a changeset which can be specified as a
changeset revision number, a tag, or a unique substring
of the changeset hash value
repository path
either the pathname of a local repository or the URI of
a remote repository.
OPTIONS
-R, --repository
repository root directory or name of overlay bundle
file
--cwd
change working directory
-y, --noninteractive
do not prompt, automatically pick the first choice for
all prompts
-q, --quiet
suppress output
-v, --verbose
enable additional output
--config
set/override config option (use 'section.name=value')
--debug
enable debugging output
--debugger
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start debugger
--encoding
set the charset encoding (default: UTF-8)
--encodingmode
set the charset encoding mode (default: strict)
--traceback
always print a traceback on exception
--time
time how long the command takes
--profile
print command execution profile
--version
output version information and exit
-h, --help
display help and exit
--hidden
consider hidden changesets
COMMANDS
add
hg add [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Schedule files to be version controlled and added to the
repository.
The files will be added to the repository at the next com-
mit. To undo an add before that, see hg forget.
If no names are given, add all files to the repository.
An example showing how new (unknown) files are added auto-
matically by hg add:
$ ls
foo.c
$ hg status
? foo.c
$ hg add
adding foo.c
$ hg status
A foo.c
Returns 0 if all files are successfully added.
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Options:
-I, --include
include names matching the given patterns
-X, --exclude
exclude names matching the given patterns
-S, --subrepos
recurse into subrepositories
-n, --dry-run
do not perform actions, just print output
addremove
hg addremove [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Add all new files and remove all missing files from the
repository.
New files are ignored if they match any of the patterns in
.hgignore. As with add, these changes take effect at the
next commit.
Use the -s/--similarity option to detect renamed files. This
option takes a percentage between 0 (disabled) and 100
(files must be identical) as its parameter. With a parameter
greater than 0, this compares every removed file with every
added file and records those similar enough as renames.
Detecting renamed files this way can be expensive. After
using this option, hg status -C can be used to check which
files were identified as moved or renamed. If not specified,
-s/--similarity defaults to 100 and only renames of identi-
cal files are detected.
Returns 0 if all files are successfully added.
Options:
-s, --similarity
guess renamed files by similarity (0<=s<=100)
-I, --include
include names matching the given patterns
-X, --exclude
exclude names matching the given patterns
-n, --dry-run
do not perform actions, just print output
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annotate
hg annotate [-r REV] [-f] [-a] [-u] [-d] [-n] [-c] [-l] FILE...
List changes in files, showing the revision id responsible
for each line
This command is useful for discovering when a change was
made and by whom.
Without the -a/--text option, annotate will avoid processing
files it detects as binary. With -a, annotate will annotate
the file anyway, although the results will probably be nei-
ther useful nor desirable.
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
-r, --rev
annotate the specified revision
--follow
follow copies/renames and list the filename (DEPRE-
CATED)
--no-follow
don't follow copies and renames
-a, --text
treat all files as text
-u, --user
list the author (long with -v)
-f, --file
list the filename
-d, --date
list the date (short with -q)
-n, --number
list the revision number (default)
-c, --changeset
list the changeset
-l, --line-number
show line number at the first appearance
-w, --ignore-all-space
ignore white space when comparing lines
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-b, --ignore-space-change
ignore changes in the amount of white space
-B, --ignore-blank-lines
ignore changes whose lines are all blank
-I, --include
include names matching the given patterns
-X, --exclude
exclude names matching the given patterns
aliases: blame
archive
hg archive [OPTION]... DEST
By default, the revision used is the parent of the working
directory; use -r/--rev to specify a different revision.
The archive type is automatically detected based on file
extension (or override using -t/--type).
Examples:
o create a zip file containing the 1.0 release:
hg archive -r 1.0 project-1.0.zip
o create a tarball excluding .hg files:
hg archive project.tar.gz -X ".hg*"
Valid types are:
files
a directory full of files (default)
tar
tar archive, uncompressed
tbz2
tar archive, compressed using bzip2
tgz
tar archive, compressed using gzip
uzip
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zip archive, uncompressed
zip
zip archive, compressed using deflate
The exact name of the destination archive or directory is
given using a format string; see hg help export for details.
Each member added to an archive file has a directory prefix
prepended. Use -p/--prefix to specify a format string for
the prefix. The default is the basename of the archive, with
suffixes removed.
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
--no-decode
do not pass files through decoders
-p, --prefix
directory prefix for files in archive
-r, --rev
revision to distribute
-t, --type
type of distribution to create
-S, --subrepos
recurse into subrepositories
-I, --include
include names matching the given patterns
-X, --exclude
exclude names matching the given patterns
backout
hg backout [OPTION]... [-r] REV
Prepare a new changeset with the effect of REV undone in the
current working directory.
If REV is the parent of the working directory, then this new
changeset is committed automatically. Otherwise, hg needs to
merge the changes and the merged result is left uncommitted.
Note backout cannot be used to fix either an unwanted or
incorrect merge.
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By default, the pending changeset will have one parent,
maintaining a linear history. With --merge, the pending
changeset will instead have two parents: the old parent of
the working directory and a new child of REV that simply
undoes REV.
Before version 1.7, the behavior without --merge was equiva-
lent to specifying --merge followed by hg update --clean .
to cancel the merge and leave the child of REV as a head to
be merged separately.
See hg help dates for a list of formats valid for -d/--date.
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
--merge
merge with old dirstate parent after backout
--parent
parent to choose when backing out merge (DEPRECATED)
-r, --rev
revision to backout
-t, --tool
specify merge tool
-I, --include
include names matching the given patterns
-X, --exclude
exclude names matching the given patterns
-m, --message
use text as commit message
-l, --logfile
read commit message from file
-d, --date
record the specified date as commit date
-u, --user
record the specified user as committer
bisect
hg bisect [-gbsr] [-U] [-c CMD] [REV]
This command helps to find changesets which introduce prob-
lems. To use, mark the earliest changeset you know exhibits
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the problem as bad, then mark the latest changeset which is
free from the problem as good. Bisect will update your work-
ing directory to a revision for testing (unless the
-U/--noupdate option is specified). Once you have performed
tests, mark the working directory as good or bad, and bisect
will either update to another candidate changeset or
announce that it has found the bad revision.
As a shortcut, you can also use the revision argument to
mark a revision as good or bad without checking it out
first.
If you supply a command, it will be used for automatic
bisection. The environment variable HG_NODE will contain
the ID of the changeset being tested. The exit status of the
command will be used to mark revisions as good or bad: sta-
tus 0 means good, 125 means to skip the revision, 127 (com-
mand not found) will abort the bisection, and any other
non-zero exit status means the revision is bad.
Some examples:
o start a bisection with known bad revision 34, and good
revision 12:
hg bisect --bad 34
hg bisect --good 12
o advance the current bisection by marking current revision
as good or bad:
hg bisect --good
hg bisect --bad
o mark the current revision, or a known revision, to be
skipped (e.g. if that revision is not usable because of
another issue):
hg bisect --skip
hg bisect --skip 23
o skip all revisions that do not touch directories foo or
bar:
hg bisect --skip "!( file('path:foo') & file('path:bar') )"
o forget the current bisection:
hg bisect --reset
o use 'make && make tests' to automatically find the first
broken revision:
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hg bisect --reset
hg bisect --bad 34
hg bisect --good 12
hg bisect --command "make && make tests"
o see all changesets whose states are already known in the
current bisection:
hg log -r "bisect(pruned)"
o see the changeset currently being bisected (especially
useful if running with -U/--noupdate):
hg log -r "bisect(current)"
o see all changesets that took part in the current bisec-
tion:
hg log -r "bisect(range)"
o you can even get a nice graph:
hg log --graph -r "bisect(range)"
See hg help revsets for more about the bisect() keyword.
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
-r, --reset
reset bisect state
-g, --good
mark changeset good
-b, --bad
mark changeset bad
-s, --skip
skip testing changeset
-e, --extend
extend the bisect range
-c, --command
use command to check changeset state
-U, --noupdate
do not update to target
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bookmarks
hg bookmarks [OPTIONS]... [NAME]...
Bookmarks are pointers to certain commits that move when
committing. Bookmarks are local. They can be renamed,
copied and deleted. It is possible to use hg merge NAME to
merge from a given bookmark, and hg update NAME to update to
a given bookmark.
You can use hg bookmark NAME to set a bookmark on the work-
ing directory's parent revision with the given name. If you
specify a revision using -r REV (where REV may be an exist-
ing bookmark), the bookmark is assigned to that revision.
Bookmarks can be pushed and pulled between repositories (see
hg help push and hg help pull). This requires both the local
and remote repositories to support bookmarks. For versions
prior to 1.8, this means the bookmarks extension must be
enabled.
If you set a bookmark called '@', new clones of the reposi-
tory will have that revision checked out (and the bookmark
made active) by default.
With -i/--inactive, the new bookmark will not be made the
active bookmark. If -r/--rev is given, the new bookmark will
not be made active even if -i/--inactive is not given. If no
NAME is given, the current active bookmark will be marked
inactive.
Options:
-f, --force
force
-r, --rev
revision
-d, --delete
delete a given bookmark
-m, --rename
rename a given bookmark
-i, --inactive
mark a bookmark inactive
aliases: bookmark
branch
hg branch [-fC] [NAME]
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Note Branch names are permanent and global. Use hg bookmark
to create a light-weight bookmark instead. See hg help
glossary for more information about named branches and
bookmarks.
With no argument, show the current branch name. With one
argument, set the working directory branch name (the branch
will not exist in the repository until the next commit).
Standard practice recommends that primary development take
place on the 'default' branch.
Unless -f/--force is specified, branch will not let you set
a branch name that already exists, even if it's inactive.
Use -C/--clean to reset the working directory branch to that
of the parent of the working directory, negating a previous
branch change.
Use the command hg update to switch to an existing branch.
Use hg commit --close-branch to mark this branch as closed.
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
-f, --force
set branch name even if it shadows an existing branch
-C, --clean
reset branch name to parent branch name
branches
hg branches [-ac]
List the repository's named branches, indicating which ones
are inactive. If -c/--closed is specified, also list
branches which have been marked closed (see hg commit
--close-branch).
If -a/--active is specified, only show active branches. A
branch is considered active if it contains repository heads.
Use the command hg update to switch to an existing branch.
Returns 0.
Options:
-a, --active
show only branches that have unmerged heads
-c, --closed
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show normal and closed branches
bundle
hg bundle [-f] [-t TYPE] [-a] [-r REV]... [--base REV]... FILE [DEST]
Generate a compressed changegroup file collecting changesets
not known to be in another repository.
If you omit the destination repository, then hg assumes the
destination will have all the nodes you specify with --base
parameters. To create a bundle containing all changesets,
use -a/--all (or --base null).
You can change compression method with the -t/--type option.
The available compression methods are: none, bzip2, and gzip
(by default, bundles are compressed using bzip2).
The bundle file can then be transferred using conventional
means and applied to another repository with the unbundle or
pull command. This is useful when direct push and pull are
not available or when exporting an entire repository is
undesirable.
Applying bundles preserves all changeset contents including
permissions, copy/rename information, and revision history.
Returns 0 on success, 1 if no changes found.
Options:
-f, --force
run even when the destination is unrelated
-r, --rev
a changeset intended to be added to the destination
-b, --branch
a specific branch you would like to bundle
--base
a base changeset assumed to be available at the desti-
nation
-a, --all
bundle all changesets in the repository
-t, --type
bundle compression type to use (default: bzip2)
-e, --ssh
specify ssh command to use
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--remotecmd
specify hg command to run on the remote side
--insecure
do not verify server certificate (ignoring web.cacerts
config)
cat
hg cat [OPTION]... FILE...
Print the specified files as they were at the given revi-
sion. If no revision is given, the parent of the working
directory is used.
Output may be to a file, in which case the name of the file
is given using a format string. The formatting rules are the
same as for the export command, with the following addi-
tions:
%s
basename of file being printed
%d
dirname of file being printed, or '.' if in repository
root
%p
root-relative path name of file being printed
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
-o, --output
print output to file with formatted name
-r, --rev
print the given revision
--decode
apply any matching decode filter
-I, --include
include names matching the given patterns
-X, --exclude
exclude names matching the given patterns
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clone
hg clone [OPTION]... SOURCE [DEST]
Create a copy of an existing repository in a new directory.
If no destination directory name is specified, it defaults
to the basename of the source.
The location of the source is added to the new repository's
.hg/hgrc file, as the default to be used for future pulls.
Only local paths and ssh:// URLs are supported as destina-
tions. For ssh:// destinations, no working directory or
.hg/hgrc will be created on the remote side.
To pull only a subset of changesets, specify one or more
revisions identifiers with -r/--rev or branches with
-b/--branch. The resulting clone will contain only the spec-
ified changesets and their ancestors. These options (or
'clone src#rev dest') imply --pull, even for local source
repositories. Note that specifying a tag will include the
tagged changeset but not the changeset containing the tag.
If the source repository has a bookmark called '@' set, that
revision will be checked out in the new repository by
default.
To check out a particular version, use -u/--update, or
-U/--noupdate to create a clone with no working directory.
For efficiency, hardlinks are used for cloning whenever the
source and destination are on the same filesystem (note this
applies only to the repository data, not to the working
directory). Some filesystems, such as AFS, implement
hardlinking incorrectly, but do not report errors. In these
cases, use the --pull option to avoid hardlinking.
In some cases, you can clone repositories and the working
directory using full hardlinks with
$ cp -al REPO REPOCLONE
This is the fastest way to clone, but it is not always safe.
The operation is not atomic (making sure REPO is not modi-
fied during the operation is up to you) and you have to make
sure your editor breaks hardlinks (Emacs and most Linux Ker-
nel tools do so). Also, this is not compatible with certain
extensions that place their metadata under the .hg direc-
tory, such as mq.
Mercurial will update the working directory to the first
applicable revision from this list:
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a. null if -U or the source repository has no changesets
b. if -u . and the source repository is local, the first
parent of the source repository's working directory
c. the changeset specified with -u (if a branch name, this
means the latest head of that branch)
d. the changeset specified with -r
e. the tipmost head specified with -b
f. the tipmost head specified with the url#branch source
syntax
g. the revision marked with the '@' bookmark, if present
h. the tipmost head of the default branch
i. tip
Examples:
o clone a remote repository to a new directory named hg/:
hg clone http://selenic.com/hg
o create a lightweight local clone:
hg clone project/ project-feature/
o clone from an absolute path on an ssh server (note dou-
ble-slash):
hg clone ssh://user@server//home/projects/alpha/
o do a high-speed clone over a LAN while checking out a
specified version:
hg clone --uncompressed http://server/repo -u 1.5
o create a repository without changesets after a particular
revision:
hg clone -r 04e544 experimental/ good/
o clone (and track) a particular named branch:
hg clone http://selenic.com/hg#stable
See hg help urls for details on specifying URLs.
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Returns 0 on success.
Options:
-U, --noupdate
the clone will include an empty working copy (only a
repository)
-u, --updaterev
revision, tag or branch to check out
-r, --rev
include the specified changeset
-b, --branch
clone only the specified branch
--pull
use pull protocol to copy metadata
--uncompressed
use uncompressed transfer (fast over LAN)
-e, --ssh
specify ssh command to use
--remotecmd
specify hg command to run on the remote side
--insecure
do not verify server certificate (ignoring web.cacerts
config)
commit
hg commit [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Commit changes to the given files into the repository.
Unlike a centralized SCM, this operation is a local opera-
tion. See hg push for a way to actively distribute your
changes.
If a list of files is omitted, all changes reported by hg
status will be committed.
If you are committing the result of a merge, do not provide
any filenames or -I/-X filters.
If no commit message is specified, Mercurial starts your
configured editor where you can enter a message. In case
your commit fails, you will find a backup of your message in
.hg/last-message.txt.
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The --amend flag can be used to amend the parent of the
working directory with a new commit that contains the
changes in the parent in addition to those currently
reported by hg status, if there are any. The old commit is
stored in a backup bundle in .hg/strip-backup (see hg help
bundle and hg help unbundle on how to restore it).
Message, user and date are taken from the amended commit
unless specified. When a message isn't specified on the com-
mand line, the editor will open with the message of the
amended commit.
It is not possible to amend public changesets (see hg help
phases) or changesets that have children.
See hg help dates for a list of formats valid for -d/--date.
Returns 0 on success, 1 if nothing changed.
Options:
-A, --addremove
mark new/missing files as added/removed before commit-
ting
--close-branch
mark a branch as closed, hiding it from the branch list
--amend
amend the parent of the working dir
-s, --secret
use the secret phase for committing
-I, --include
include names matching the given patterns
-X, --exclude
exclude names matching the given patterns
-m, --message
use text as commit message
-l, --logfile
read commit message from file
-d, --date
record the specified date as commit date
-u, --user
record the specified user as committer
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-S, --subrepos
recurse into subrepositories
aliases: ci
copy
hg copy [OPTION]... [SOURCE]... DEST
Mark dest as having copies of source files. If dest is a
directory, copies are put in that directory. If dest is a
file, the source must be a single file.
By default, this command copies the contents of files as
they exist in the working directory. If invoked with
-A/--after, the operation is recorded, but no copying is
performed.
This command takes effect with the next commit. To undo a
copy before that, see hg revert.
Returns 0 on success, 1 if errors are encountered.
Options:
-A, --after
record a copy that has already occurred
-f, --force
forcibly copy over an existing managed file
-I, --include
include names matching the given patterns
-X, --exclude
exclude names matching the given patterns
-n, --dry-run
do not perform actions, just print output
aliases: cp
diff
hg diff [OPTION]... ([-c REV] | [-r REV1 [-r REV2]]) [FILE]...
Show differences between revisions for the specified files.
Differences between files are shown using the unified diff
format.
Note diff may generate unexpected results for merges, as it
will default to comparing against the working direc-
tory's first parent changeset if no revisions are
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specified.
When two revision arguments are given, then changes are
shown between those revisions. If only one revision is spec-
ified then that revision is compared to the working direc-
tory, and, when no revisions are specified, the working
directory files are compared to its parent.
Alternatively you can specify -c/--change with a revision to
see the changes in that changeset relative to its first par-
ent.
Without the -a/--text option, diff will avoid generating
diffs of files it detects as binary. With -a, diff will gen-
erate a diff anyway, probably with undesirable results.
Use the -g/--git option to generate diffs in the git
extended diff format. For more information, read hg help
diffs.
Examples:
o compare a file in the current working directory to its
parent:
hg diff foo.c
o compare two historical versions of a directory, with
rename info:
hg diff --git -r 1.0:1.2 lib/
o get change stats relative to the last change on some date:
hg diff --stat -r "date('may 2')"
o diff all newly-added files that contain a keyword:
hg diff "set:added() and grep(GNU)"
o compare a revision and its parents:
hg diff -c 9353 # compare against first parent
hg diff -r 9353^:9353 # same using revset syntax
hg diff -r 9353^2:9353 # compare against the second parent
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
-r, --rev
revision
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-c, --change
change made by revision
-a, --text
treat all files as text
-g, --git
use git extended diff format
--nodates
omit dates from diff headers
-p, --show-function
show which function each change is in
--reverse
produce a diff that undoes the changes
-w, --ignore-all-space
ignore white space when comparing lines
-b, --ignore-space-change
ignore changes in the amount of white space
-B, --ignore-blank-lines
ignore changes whose lines are all blank
-U, --unified
number of lines of context to show
--stat
output diffstat-style summary of changes
-I, --include
include names matching the given patterns
-X, --exclude
exclude names matching the given patterns
-S, --subrepos
recurse into subrepositories
export
hg export [OPTION]... [-o OUTFILESPEC] [-r] [REV]...
Print the changeset header and diffs for one or more revi-
sions. If no revision is given, the parent of the working
directory is used.
The information shown in the changeset header is: author,
date, branch name (if non-default), changeset hash, par-
ent(s) and commit comment.
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Note export may generate unexpected diff output for merge
changesets, as it will compare the merge changeset
against its first parent only.
Output may be to a file, in which case the name of the file
is given using a format string. The formatting rules are as
follows:
%%
literal "%" character
%H
changeset hash (40 hexadecimal digits)
%N
number of patches being generated
%R
changeset revision number
%b
basename of the exporting repository
%h
short-form changeset hash (12 hexadecimal digits)
%m
first line of the commit message (only alphanumeric
characters)
%n
zero-padded sequence number, starting at 1
%r
zero-padded changeset revision number
Without the -a/--text option, export will avoid generating
diffs of files it detects as binary. With -a, export will
generate a diff anyway, probably with undesirable results.
Use the -g/--git option to generate diffs in the git
extended diff format. See hg help diffs for more informa-
tion.
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With the --switch-parent option, the diff will be against
the second parent. It can be useful to review a merge.
Examples:
o use export and import to transplant a bugfix to the cur-
rent branch:
hg export -r 9353 | hg import -
o export all the changesets between two revisions to a file
with rename information:
hg export --git -r 123:150 > changes.txt
o split outgoing changes into a series of patches with
descriptive names:
hg export -r "outgoing()" -o "%n-%m.patch"
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
-o, --output
print output to file with formatted name
--switch-parent
diff against the second parent
-r, --rev
revisions to export
-a, --text
treat all files as text
-g, --git
use git extended diff format
--nodates
omit dates from diff headers
forget
hg forget [OPTION]... FILE...
Mark the specified files so they will no longer be tracked
after the next commit.
This only removes files from the current branch, not from
the entire project history, and it does not delete them from
the working directory.
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To undo a forget before the next commit, see hg add.
Examples:
o forget newly-added binary files:
hg forget "set:added() and binary()"
o forget files that would be excluded by .hgignore:
hg forget "set:hgignore()"
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
-I, --include
include names matching the given patterns
-X, --exclude
exclude names matching the given patterns
graft
hg graft [OPTION]... [-r] REV...
This command uses Mercurial's merge logic to copy individual
changes from other branches without merging branches in the
history graph. This is sometimes known as 'backporting' or
'cherry-picking'. By default, graft will copy user, date,
and description from the source changesets.
Changesets that are ancestors of the current revision, that
have already been grafted, or that are merges will be
skipped.
If --log is specified, log messages will have a comment
appended of the form:
(grafted from CHANGESETHASH)
If a graft merge results in conflicts, the graft process is
interrupted so that the current merge can be manually
resolved. Once all conflicts are addressed, the graft
process can be continued with the -c/--continue option.
Note The -c/--continue option does not reapply earlier
options.
Examples:
o copy a single change to the stable branch and edit its
description:
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hg update stable
hg graft --edit 9393
o graft a range of changesets with one exception, updating
dates:
hg graft -D "2085::2093 and not 2091"
o continue a graft after resolving conflicts:
hg graft -c
o show the source of a grafted changeset:
hg log --debug -r .
Returns 0 on successful completion.
Options:
-r, --rev
revisions to graft
-c, --continue
resume interrupted graft
-e, --edit
invoke editor on commit messages
--log
append graft info to log message
-D, --currentdate
record the current date as commit date
-U, --currentuser
record the current user as committer
-d, --date
record the specified date as commit date
-u, --user
record the specified user as committer
-t, --tool
specify merge tool
-n, --dry-run
do not perform actions, just print output
grep
hg grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
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Search revisions of files for a regular expression.
This command behaves differently than Unix grep. It only
accepts Python/Perl regexps. It searches repository history,
not the working directory. It always prints the revision
number in which a match appears.
By default, grep only prints output for the first revision
of a file in which it finds a match. To get it to print
every revision that contains a change in match status ("-"
for a match that becomes a non-match, or "+" for a non-match
that becomes a match), use the --all flag.
Returns 0 if a match is found, 1 otherwise.
Options:
-0, --print0
end fields with NUL
--all
print all revisions that match
-a, --text
treat all files as text
-f, --follow
follow changeset history, or file history across copies
and renames
-i, --ignore-case
ignore case when matching
-l, --files-with-matches
print only filenames and revisions that match
-n, --line-number
print matching line numbers
-r, --rev
only search files changed within revision range
-u, --user
list the author (long with -v)
-d, --date
list the date (short with -q)
-I, --include
include names matching the given patterns
-X, --exclude
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exclude names matching the given patterns
heads
hg heads [-ct] [-r STARTREV] [REV]...
With no arguments, show all open branch heads in the reposi-
tory. Branch heads are changesets that have no descendants
on the same branch. They are where development generally
takes place and are the usual targets for update and merge
operations.
If one or more REVs are given, only open branch heads on the
branches associated with the specified changesets are shown.
This means that you can use hg heads . to see the heads on
the currently checked-out branch.
If -c/--closed is specified, also show branch heads marked
closed (see hg commit --close-branch).
If STARTREV is specified, only those heads that are descen-
dants of STARTREV will be displayed.
If -t/--topo is specified, named branch mechanics will be
ignored and only topological heads (changesets with no chil-
dren) will be shown.
Returns 0 if matching heads are found, 1 if not.
Options:
-r, --rev
show only heads which are descendants of STARTREV
-t, --topo
show topological heads only
-a, --active
show active branchheads only (DEPRECATED)
-c, --closed
show normal and closed branch heads
--style
display using template map file
--template
display with template
help
hg help [-ec] [TOPIC]
With no arguments, print a list of commands with short help
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messages.
Given a topic, extension, or command name, print help for
that topic.
Returns 0 if successful.
Options:
-e, --extension
show only help for extensions
-c, --command
show only help for commands
-k, --keyword
show topics matching keyword
identify
hg identify [-nibtB] [-r REV] [SOURCE]
Print a summary identifying the repository state at REV
using one or two parent hash identifiers, followed by a "+"
if the working directory has uncommitted changes, the branch
name (if not default), a list of tags, and a list of book-
marks.
When REV is not given, print a summary of the current state
of the repository.
Specifying a path to a repository root or Mercurial bundle
will cause lookup to operate on that repository/bundle.
Examples:
o generate a build identifier for the working directory:
hg id --id > build-id.dat
o find the revision corresponding to a tag:
hg id -n -r 1.3
o check the most recent revision of a remote repository:
hg id -r tip http://selenic.com/hg/
Returns 0 if successful.
Options:
-r, --rev
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identify the specified revision
-n, --num
show local revision number
-i, --id
show global revision id
-b, --branch
show branch
-t, --tags
show tags
-B, --bookmarks
show bookmarks
-e, --ssh
specify ssh command to use
--remotecmd
specify hg command to run on the remote side
--insecure
do not verify server certificate (ignoring web.cacerts
config)
aliases: id
import
hg import [OPTION]... PATCH...
Import a list of patches and commit them individually
(unless --no-commit is specified).
Because import first applies changes to the working direc-
tory, import will abort if there are outstanding changes.
You can import a patch straight from a mail message. Even
patches as attachments work (to use the body part, it must
have type text/plain or text/x-patch). From and Subject
headers of email message are used as default committer and
commit message. All text/plain body parts before first diff
are added to commit message.
If the imported patch was generated by hg export, user and
description from patch override values from message headers
and body. Values given on command line with -m/--message and
-u/--user override these.
If --exact is specified, import will set the working direc-
tory to the parent of each patch before applying it, and
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will abort if the resulting changeset has a different ID
than the one recorded in the patch. This may happen due to
character set problems or other deficiencies in the text
patch format.
Use --bypass to apply and commit patches directly to the
repository, not touching the working directory. Without
--exact, patches will be applied on top of the working
directory parent revision.
With -s/--similarity, hg will attempt to discover renames
and copies in the patch in the same way as hg addremove.
To read a patch from standard input, use "-" as the patch
name. If a URL is specified, the patch will be downloaded
from it. See hg help dates for a list of formats valid for
-d/--date.
Examples:
o import a traditional patch from a website and detect
renames:
hg import -s 80 http://example.com/bugfix.patch
o import a changeset from an hgweb server:
hg import http://www.selenic.com/hg/rev/5ca8c111e9aa
o import all the patches in an Unix-style mbox:
hg import incoming-patches.mbox
o attempt to exactly restore an exported changeset (not
always possible):
hg import --exact proposed-fix.patch
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
-p, --strip
directory strip option for patch. This has the same
meaning as the corresponding patch option (default: 1)
-b, --base
base path (DEPRECATED)
-e, --edit
invoke editor on commit messages
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-f, --force
skip check for outstanding uncommitted changes (DEPRE-
CATED)
--no-commit
don't commit, just update the working directory
--bypass
apply patch without touching the working directory
--exact
apply patch to the nodes from which it was generated
--import-branch
use any branch information in patch (implied by
--exact)
-m, --message
use text as commit message
-l, --logfile
read commit message from file
-d, --date
record the specified date as commit date
-u, --user
record the specified user as committer
-s, --similarity
guess renamed files by similarity (0<=s<=100)
aliases: patch
incoming
hg incoming [-p] [-n] [-M] [-f] [-r REV]... [--bundle FILENAME] [SOURCE]
Show new changesets found in the specified path/URL or the
default pull location. These are the changesets that would
have been pulled if a pull at the time you issued this com-
mand.
For remote repository, using --bundle avoids downloading the
changesets twice if the incoming is followed by a pull.
See pull for valid source format details.
Returns 0 if there are incoming changes, 1 otherwise.
Options:
-f, --force
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run even if remote repository is unrelated
-n, --newest-first
show newest record first
--bundle
file to store the bundles into
-r, --rev
a remote changeset intended to be added
-B, --bookmarks
compare bookmarks
-b, --branch
a specific branch you would like to pull
-p, --patch
show patch
-g, --git
use git extended diff format
-l, --limit
limit number of changes displayed
-M, --no-merges
do not show merges
--stat
output diffstat-style summary of changes
-G, --graph
show the revision DAG
--style
display using template map file
--template
display with template
-e, --ssh
specify ssh command to use
--remotecmd
specify hg command to run on the remote side
--insecure
do not verify server certificate (ignoring web.cacerts
config)
-S, --subrepos
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recurse into subrepositories
aliases: in
init
hg init [-e CMD] [--remotecmd CMD] [DEST]
Initialize a new repository in the given directory. If the
given directory does not exist, it will be created.
If no directory is given, the current directory is used.
It is possible to specify an ssh:// URL as the destination.
See hg help urls for more information.
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
-e, --ssh
specify ssh command to use
--remotecmd
specify hg command to run on the remote side
--insecure
do not verify server certificate (ignoring web.cacerts
config)
locate
hg locate [OPTION]... [PATTERN]...
Print files under Mercurial control in the working directory
whose names match the given patterns.
By default, this command searches all directories in the
working directory. To search just the current directory and
its subdirectories, use "--include .".
If no patterns are given to match, this command prints the
names of all files under Mercurial control in the working
directory.
If you want to feed the output of this command into the
"xargs" command, use the -0 option to both this command and
"xargs". This will avoid the problem of "xargs" treating
single filenames that contain whitespace as multiple file-
names.
Returns 0 if a match is found, 1 otherwise.
Options:
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-r, --rev
search the repository as it is in REV
-0, --print0
end filenames with NUL, for use with xargs
-f, --fullpath
print complete paths from the filesystem root
-I, --include
include names matching the given patterns
-X, --exclude
exclude names matching the given patterns
log
hg log [OPTION]... [FILE]
Print the revision history of the specified files or the
entire project.
If no revision range is specified, the default is tip:0
unless --follow is set, in which case the working directory
parent is used as the starting revision.
File history is shown without following rename or copy his-
tory of files. Use -f/--follow with a filename to follow
history across renames and copies. --follow without a file-
name will only show ancestors or descendants of the starting
revision.
By default this command prints revision number and changeset
id, tags, non-trivial parents, user, date and time, and a
summary for each commit. When the -v/--verbose switch is
used, the list of changed files and full commit message are
shown.
Note log -p/--patch may generate unexpected diff output for
merge changesets, as it will only compare the merge
changeset against its first parent. Also, only files
different from BOTH parents will appear in files:.
Note
for performance reasons, log FILE may omit duplicate changes
made on branches and will not show deletions. To see all
changes including duplicates and deletions, use the
--removed switch.
Some examples:
o changesets with full descriptions and file lists:
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hg log -v
o changesets ancestral to the working directory:
hg log -f
o last 10 commits on the current branch:
hg log -l 10 -b .
o changesets showing all modifications of a file, including
removals:
hg log --removed file.c
o all changesets that touch a directory, with diffs, exclud-
ing merges:
hg log -Mp lib/
o all revision numbers that match a keyword:
hg log -k bug --template "{rev}\n"
o check if a given changeset is included is a tagged
release:
hg log -r "a21ccf and ancestor(1.9)"
o find all changesets by some user in a date range:
hg log -k alice -d "may 2008 to jul 2008"
o summary of all changesets after the last tag:
hg log -r "last(tagged())::" --template "{desc|firstline}\n"
See hg help dates for a list of formats valid for -d/--date.
See hg help revisions and hg help revsets for more about
specifying revisions.
See hg help templates for more about pre-packaged styles and
specifying custom templates.
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
-f, --follow
follow changeset history, or file history across copies
and renames
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--follow-first
only follow the first parent of merge changesets (DEP-
RECATED)
-d, --date
show revisions matching date spec
-C, --copies
show copied files
-k, --keyword
do case-insensitive search for a given text
-r, --rev
show the specified revision or range
--removed
include revisions where files were removed
-m, --only-merges
show only merges (DEPRECATED)
-u, --user
revisions committed by user
--only-branch
show only changesets within the given named branch
(DEPRECATED)
-b, --branch
show changesets within the given named branch
-P, --prune
do not display revision or any of its ancestors
-p, --patch
show patch
-g, --git
use git extended diff format
-l, --limit
limit number of changes displayed
-M, --no-merges
do not show merges
--stat
output diffstat-style summary of changes
-G, --graph
show the revision DAG
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--style
display using template map file
--template
display with template
-I, --include
include names matching the given patterns
-X, --exclude
exclude names matching the given patterns
aliases: history
manifest
hg manifest [-r REV]
Print a list of version controlled files for the given revi-
sion. If no revision is given, the first parent of the
working directory is used, or the null revision if no revi-
sion is checked out.
With -v, print file permissions, symlink and executable
bits. With --debug, print file revision hashes.
If option --all is specified, the list of all files from all
revisions is printed. This includes deleted and renamed
files.
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
-r, --rev
revision to display
--all
list files from all revisions
merge
hg merge [-P] [-f] [[-r] REV]
The current working directory is updated with all changes
made in the requested revision since the last common prede-
cessor revision.
Files that changed between either parent are marked as
changed for the next commit and a commit must be performed
before any further updates to the repository are allowed.
The next commit will have two parents.
--tool can be used to specify the merge tool used for file
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merges. It overrides the HGMERGE environment variable and
your configuration files. See hg help merge-tools for
options.
If no revision is specified, the working directory's parent
is a head revision, and the current branch contains exactly
one other head, the other head is merged with by default.
Otherwise, an explicit revision with which to merge with
must be provided.
hg resolve must be used to resolve unresolved files.
To undo an uncommitted merge, use hg update --clean . which
will check out a clean copy of the original merge parent,
losing all changes.
Returns 0 on success, 1 if there are unresolved files.
Options:
-f, --force
force a merge including outstanding changes (DEPRE-
CATED)
-r, --rev
revision to merge
-P, --preview
review revisions to merge (no merge is performed)
-t, --tool
specify merge tool
outgoing
hg outgoing [-M] [-p] [-n] [-f] [-r REV]... [DEST]
Show changesets not found in the specified destination
repository or the default push location. These are the
changesets that would be pushed if a push was requested.
See pull for details of valid destination formats.
Returns 0 if there are outgoing changes, 1 otherwise.
Options:
-f, --force
run even when the destination is unrelated
-r, --rev
a changeset intended to be included in the destination
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-n, --newest-first
show newest record first
-B, --bookmarks
compare bookmarks
-b, --branch
a specific branch you would like to push
-p, --patch
show patch
-g, --git
use git extended diff format
-l, --limit
limit number of changes displayed
-M, --no-merges
do not show merges
--stat
output diffstat-style summary of changes
-G, --graph
show the revision DAG
--style
display using template map file
--template
display with template
-e, --ssh
specify ssh command to use
--remotecmd
specify hg command to run on the remote side
--insecure
do not verify server certificate (ignoring web.cacerts
config)
-S, --subrepos
recurse into subrepositories
aliases: out
parents
hg parents [-r REV] [FILE]
Print the working directory's parent revisions. If a
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revision is given via -r/--rev, the parent of that revision
will be printed. If a file argument is given, the revision
in which the file was last changed (before the working
directory revision or the argument to --rev if given) is
printed.
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
-r, --rev
show parents of the specified revision
--style
display using template map file
--template
display with template
paths
hg paths [NAME]
Show definition of symbolic path name NAME. If no name is
given, show definition of all available names.
Option -q/--quiet suppresses all output when searching for
NAME and shows only the path names when listing all defini-
tions.
Path names are defined in the [paths] section of your con-
figuration file and in /etc/mercurial/hgrc. If run inside a
repository, .hg/hgrc is used, too.
The path names default and default-push have a special mean-
ing. When performing a push or pull operation, they are
used as fallbacks if no location is specified on the com-
mand-line. When default-push is set, it will be used for
push and default will be used for pull; otherwise default is
used as the fallback for both. When cloning a repository,
the clone source is written as default in .hg/hgrc. Note
that default and default-push apply to all inbound (e.g. hg
incoming) and outbound (e.g. hg outgoing, hg email and hg
bundle) operations.
See hg help urls for more information.
Returns 0 on success.
phase
hg phase [-p|-d|-s] [-f] [-r] REV...
With no argument, show the phase name of specified
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revisions.
With one of -p/--public, -d/--draft or -s/--secret, change
the phase value of the specified revisions.
Unless -f/--force is specified, hg phase won't move change-
set from a lower phase to an higher phase. Phases are
ordered as follows:
public < draft < secret
Return 0 on success, 1 if no phases were changed or some
could not be changed.
Options:
-p, --public
set changeset phase to public
-d, --draft
set changeset phase to draft
-s, --secret
set changeset phase to secret
-f, --force
allow to move boundary backward
-r, --rev
target revision
pull
hg pull [-u] [-f] [-r REV]... [-e CMD] [--remotecmd CMD] [SOURCE]
Pull changes from a remote repository to a local one.
This finds all changes from the repository at the specified
path or URL and adds them to a local repository (the current
one unless -R is specified). By default, this does not
update the copy of the project in the working directory.
Use hg incoming if you want to see what would have been
added by a pull at the time you issued this command. If you
then decide to add those changes to the repository, you
should use hg pull -r X where X is the last changeset listed
by hg incoming.
If SOURCE is omitted, the 'default' path will be used. See
hg help urls for more information.
Returns 0 on success, 1 if an update had unresolved files.
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Options:
-u, --update
update to new branch head if changesets were pulled
-f, --force
run even when remote repository is unrelated
-r, --rev
a remote changeset intended to be added
-B, --bookmark
bookmark to pull
-b, --branch
a specific branch you would like to pull
-e, --ssh
specify ssh command to use
--remotecmd
specify hg command to run on the remote side
--insecure
do not verify server certificate (ignoring web.cacerts
config)
push
hg push [-f] [-r REV]... [-e CMD] [--remotecmd CMD] [DEST]
Push changesets from the local repository to the specified
destination.
This operation is symmetrical to pull: it is identical to a
pull in the destination repository from the current one.
By default, push will not allow creation of new heads at the
destination, since multiple heads would make it unclear
which head to use. In this situation, it is recommended to
pull and merge before pushing.
Use --new-branch if you want to allow push to create a new
named branch that is not present at the destination. This
allows you to only create a new branch without forcing other
changes.
Note Extra care should be taken with the -f/--force option,
which will push all new heads on all branches, an
action which will almost always cause confusion for
collaborators.
If -r/--rev is used, the specified revision and all its
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ancestors will be pushed to the remote repository.
If -B/--bookmark is used, the specified bookmarked revision,
its ancestors, and the bookmark will be pushed to the remote
repository.
Please see hg help urls for important details about ssh://
URLs. If DESTINATION is omitted, a default path will be
used.
Returns 0 if push was successful, 1 if nothing to push.
Options:
-f, --force
force push
-r, --rev
a changeset intended to be included in the destination
-B, --bookmark
bookmark to push
-b, --branch
a specific branch you would like to push
--new-branch
allow pushing a new branch
-e, --ssh
specify ssh command to use
--remotecmd
specify hg command to run on the remote side
--insecure
do not verify server certificate (ignoring web.cacerts
config)
recover
hg recover
Recover from an interrupted commit or pull.
This command tries to fix the repository status after an
interrupted operation. It should only be necessary when Mer-
curial suggests it.
Returns 0 if successful, 1 if nothing to recover or verify
fails.
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remove
hg remove [OPTION]... FILE...
Schedule the indicated files for removal from the current
branch.
This command schedules the files to be removed at the next
commit. To undo a remove before that, see hg revert. To
undo added files, see hg forget.
-A/--after can be used to remove only files that have
already been deleted, -f/--force can be used to force dele-
tion, and -Af can be used to remove files from the next
revision without deleting them from the working directory.
The following table details the behavior of remove for dif-
ferent file states (columns) and option combinations (rows).
The file states are Added [A], Clean [C], Modified [M] and
Missing [!] (as reported by hg status). The actions are
Warn, Remove (from branch) and Delete (from disk):
+----------+---+----+----+---+
|opt/state | A | C | M | ! |
+----------+---+----+----+---+
|none | W | RD | W | R |
+----------+---+----+----+---+
|-f | R | RD | RD | R |
+----------+---+----+----+---+
|-A | W | W | W | R |
+----------+---+----+----+---+
|-Af | R | R | R | R |
+----------+---+----+----+---+
Note that remove never deletes files in Added [A] state from
the working directory, not even if option --force is speci-
fied.
Returns 0 on success, 1 if any warnings encountered.
Options:
-A, --after
record delete for missing files
-f, --force
remove (and delete) file even if added or modified
-I, --include
include names matching the given patterns
-X, --exclude
exclude names matching the given patterns
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aliases: rm
rename
hg rename [OPTION]... SOURCE... DEST
Mark dest as copies of sources; mark sources for deletion.
If dest is a directory, copies are put in that directory. If
dest is a file, there can only be one source.
By default, this command copies the contents of files as
they exist in the working directory. If invoked with
-A/--after, the operation is recorded, but no copying is
performed.
This command takes effect at the next commit. To undo a
rename before that, see hg revert.
Returns 0 on success, 1 if errors are encountered.
Options:
-A, --after
record a rename that has already occurred
-f, --force
forcibly copy over an existing managed file
-I, --include
include names matching the given patterns
-X, --exclude
exclude names matching the given patterns
-n, --dry-run
do not perform actions, just print output
aliases: move mv
resolve
hg resolve [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Merges with unresolved conflicts are often the result of
non-interactive merging using the internal:merge configura-
tion setting, or a command-line merge tool like diff3. The
resolve command is used to manage the files involved in a
merge, after hg merge has been run, and before hg commit is
run (i.e. the working directory must have two parents). See
hg help merge-tools for information on configuring merge
tools.
The resolve command can be used in the following ways:
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o hg resolve [--tool TOOL] FILE...: attempt to re-merge the
specified files, discarding any previous merge attempts.
Re-merging is not performed for files already marked as
resolved. Use --all/-a to select all unresolved files.
--tool can be used to specify the merge tool used for the
given files. It overrides the HGMERGE environment variable
and your configuration files. Previous file contents are
saved with a .orig suffix.
o hg resolve -m [FILE]: mark a file as having been resolved
(e.g. after having manually fixed-up the files). The
default is to mark all unresolved files.
o hg resolve -u [FILE]...: mark a file as unresolved. The
default is to mark all resolved files.
o hg resolve -l: list files which had or still have con-
flicts. In the printed list, U = unresolved and R =
resolved.
Note that Mercurial will not let you commit files with unre-
solved merge conflicts. You must use hg resolve -m ...
before you can commit after a conflicting merge.
Returns 0 on success, 1 if any files fail a resolve attempt.
Options:
-a, --all
select all unresolved files
-l, --list
list state of files needing merge
-m, --mark
mark files as resolved
-u, --unmark
mark files as unresolved
-n, --no-status
hide status prefix
-t, --tool
specify merge tool
-I, --include
include names matching the given patterns
-X, --exclude
exclude names matching the given patterns
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revert
hg revert [OPTION]... [-r REV] [NAME]...
Note To check out earlier revisions, you should use hg
update REV. To cancel an uncommitted merge (and lose
your changes), use hg update --clean ..
With no revision specified, revert the specified files or
directories to the contents they had in the parent of the
working directory. This restores the contents of files to
an unmodified state and unschedules adds, removes, copies,
and renames. If the working directory has two parents, you
must explicitly specify a revision.
Using the -r/--rev or -d/--date options, revert the given
files or directories to their states as of a specific revi-
sion. Because revert does not change the working directory
parents, this will cause these files to appear modified.
This can be helpful to "back out" some or all of an earlier
change. See hg backout for a related method.
Modified files are saved with a .orig suffix before revert-
ing. To disable these backups, use --no-backup.
See hg help dates for a list of formats valid for -d/--date.
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
-a, --all
revert all changes when no arguments given
-d, --date
tipmost revision matching date
-r, --rev
revert to the specified revision
-C, --no-backup
do not save backup copies of files
-I, --include
include names matching the given patterns
-X, --exclude
exclude names matching the given patterns
-n, --dry-run
do not perform actions, just print output
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rollback
hg rollback
Please use hg commit --amend instead of rollback to correct
mistakes in the last commit.
This command should be used with care. There is only one
level of rollback, and there is no way to undo a rollback.
It will also restore the dirstate at the time of the last
transaction, losing any dirstate changes since that time.
This command does not alter the working directory.
Transactions are used to encapsulate the effects of all com-
mands that create new changesets or propagate existing
changesets into a repository.
For example, the following commands are transactional, and
their effects can be rolled back:
o commit
o import
o pull
o push (with this repository as the destination)
o unbundle
To avoid permanent data loss, rollback will refuse to roll-
back a commit transaction if it isn't checked out. Use
--force to override this protection.
This command is not intended for use on public repositories.
Once changes are visible for pull by other users, rolling a
transaction back locally is ineffective (someone else may
already have pulled the changes). Furthermore, a race is
possible with readers of the repository; for example an
in-progress pull from the repository may fail if a rollback
is performed.
Returns 0 on success, 1 if no rollback data is available.
Options:
-n, --dry-run
do not perform actions, just print output
-f, --force
ignore safety measures
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root
hg root
Print the root directory of the current repository.
Returns 0 on success.
serve
hg serve [OPTION]...
Start a local HTTP repository browser and pull server. You
can use this for ad-hoc sharing and browsing of reposito-
ries. It is recommended to use a real web server to serve a
repository for longer periods of time.
Please note that the server does not implement access con-
trol. This means that, by default, anybody can read from
the server and nobody can write to it by default. Set the
web.allow_push option to * to allow everybody to push to the
server. You should use a real web server if you need to
authenticate users.
By default, the server logs accesses to stdout and errors to
stderr. Use the -A/--accesslog and -E/--errorlog options to
log to files.
To have the server choose a free port number to listen on,
specify a port number of 0; in this case, the server will
print the port number it uses.
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
-A, --accesslog
name of access log file to write to
-d, --daemon
run server in background
--daemon-pipefds
used internally by daemon mode
-E, --errorlog
name of error log file to write to
-p, --port
port to listen on (default: 8000)
-a, --address
address to listen on (default: all interfaces)
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--prefix
prefix path to serve from (default: server root)
-n, --name
name to show in web pages (default: working directory)
--web-conf
name of the hgweb config file (see "hg help hgweb")
--webdir-conf
name of the hgweb config file (DEPRECATED)
--pid-file
name of file to write process ID to
--stdio
for remote clients
--cmdserver
for remote clients
-t, --templates
web templates to use
--style
template style to use
-6, --ipv6
use IPv6 in addition to IPv4
--certificate
SSL certificate file
showconfig
hg showconfig [-u] [NAME]...
With no arguments, print names and values of all config
items.
With one argument of the form section.name, print just the
value of that config item.
With multiple arguments, print names and values of all con-
fig items with matching section names.
With --debug, the source (filename and line number) is
printed for each config item.
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
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-u, --untrusted
show untrusted configuration options
aliases: debugconfig
status
hg status [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Show status of files in the repository. If names are given,
only files that match are shown. Files that are clean or
ignored or the source of a copy/move operation, are not
listed unless -c/--clean, -i/--ignored, -C/--copies or
-A/--all are given. Unless options described with "show
only ..." are given, the options -mardu are used.
Option -q/--quiet hides untracked (unknown and ignored)
files unless explicitly requested with -u/--unknown or
-i/--ignored.
Note status may appear to disagree with diff if permissions
have changed or a merge has occurred. The standard diff
format does not report permission changes and diff only
reports changes relative to one merge parent.
If one revision is given, it is used as the base revision.
If two revisions are given, the differences between them are
shown. The --change option can also be used as a shortcut to
list the changed files of a revision from its first parent.
The codes used to show the status of files are:
M = modified
A = added
R = removed
C = clean
! = missing (deleted by non-hg command, but still tracked)
? = not tracked
I = ignored
= origin of the previous file listed as A (added)
Examples:
o show changes in the working directory relative to a
changeset:
hg status --rev 9353
o show all changes including copies in an existing change-
set:
hg status --copies --change 9353
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o get a NUL separated list of added files, suitable for
xargs:
hg status -an0
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
-A, --all
show status of all files
-m, --modified
show only modified files
-a, --added
show only added files
-r, --removed
show only removed files
-d, --deleted
show only deleted (but tracked) files
-c, --clean
show only files without changes
-u, --unknown
show only unknown (not tracked) files
-i, --ignored
show only ignored files
-n, --no-status
hide status prefix
-C, --copies
show source of copied files
-0, --print0
end filenames with NUL, for use with xargs
--rev
show difference from revision
--change
list the changed files of a revision
-I, --include
include names matching the given patterns
-X, --exclude
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exclude names matching the given patterns
-S, --subrepos
recurse into subrepositories
aliases: st
summary
hg summary [--remote]
This generates a brief summary of the working directory
state, including parents, branch, commit status, and avail-
able updates.
With the --remote option, this will check the default paths
for incoming and outgoing changes. This can be time-consum-
ing.
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
--remote
check for push and pull
aliases: sum
tag
hg tag [-f] [-l] [-m TEXT] [-d DATE] [-u USER] [-r REV] NAME...
Name a particular revision using <name>.
Tags are used to name particular revisions of the repository
and are very useful to compare different revisions, to go
back to significant earlier versions or to mark branch
points as releases, etc. Changing an existing tag is nor-
mally disallowed; use -f/--force to override.
If no revision is given, the parent of the working directory
is used.
To facilitate version control, distribution, and merging of
tags, they are stored as a file named ".hgtags" which is
managed similarly to other project files and can be
hand-edited if necessary. This also means that tagging cre-
ates a new commit. The file ".hg/localtags" is used for
local tags (not shared among repositories).
Tag commits are usually made at the head of a branch. If the
parent of the working directory is not a branch head, hg tag
aborts; use -f/--force to force the tag commit to be based
on a non-head changeset.
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See hg help dates for a list of formats valid for -d/--date.
Since tag names have priority over branch names during revi-
sion lookup, using an existing branch name as a tag name is
discouraged.
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
-f, --force
force tag
-l, --local
make the tag local
-r, --rev
revision to tag
--remove
remove a tag
-e, --edit
edit commit message
-m, --message
use <text> as commit message
-d, --date
record the specified date as commit date
-u, --user
record the specified user as committer
tags
hg tags
This lists both regular and local tags. When the -v/--ver-
bose switch is used, a third column "local" is printed for
local tags.
Returns 0 on success.
tip
hg tip [-p] [-g]
The tip revision (usually just called the tip) is the
changeset most recently added to the repository (and there-
fore the most recently changed head).
If you have just made a commit, that commit will be the tip.
If you have just pulled changes from another repository, the
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tip of that repository becomes the current tip. The "tip"
tag is special and cannot be renamed or assigned to a dif-
ferent changeset.
This command is deprecated, please use hg heads instead.
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
-p, --patch
show patch
-g, --git
use git extended diff format
--style
display using template map file
--template
display with template
unbundle
hg unbundle [-u] FILE...
Apply one or more compressed changegroup files generated by
the bundle command.
Returns 0 on success, 1 if an update has unresolved files.
Options:
-u, --update
update to new branch head if changesets were unbundled
update
hg update [-c] [-C] [-d DATE] [[-r] REV]
Update the repository's working directory to the specified
changeset. If no changeset is specified, update to the tip
of the current named branch and move the current bookmark
(see hg help bookmarks).
Update sets the working directory's parent revision to the
specified changeset (see hg help parents).
If the changeset is not a descendant or ancestor of the
working directory's parent, the update is aborted. With the
-c/--check option, the working directory is checked for
uncommitted changes; if none are found, the working direc-
tory is updated to the specified changeset.
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The following rules apply when the working directory con-
tains uncommitted changes:
1. If neither -c/--check nor -C/--clean is specified, and if
the requested changeset is an ancestor or descendant of
the working directory's parent, the uncommitted changes
are merged into the requested changeset and the merged
result is left uncommitted. If the requested changeset is
not an ancestor or descendant (that is, it is on another
branch), the update is aborted and the uncommitted
changes are preserved.
2. With the -c/--check option, the update is aborted and the
uncommitted changes are preserved.
3. With the -C/--clean option, uncommitted changes are dis-
carded and the working directory is updated to the
requested changeset.
To cancel an uncommitted merge (and lose your changes), use
hg update --clean ..
Use null as the changeset to remove the working directory
(like hg clone -U).
If you want to revert just one file to an older revision,
use hg revert [-r REV] NAME.
See hg help dates for a list of formats valid for -d/--date.
Returns 0 on success, 1 if there are unresolved files.
Options:
-C, --clean
discard uncommitted changes (no backup)
-c, --check
update across branches if no uncommitted changes
-d, --date
tipmost revision matching date
-r, --rev
revision
aliases: up checkout co
verify
hg verify
Verify the integrity of the current repository.
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This will perform an extensive check of the repository's
integrity, validating the hashes and checksums of each entry
in the changelog, manifest, and tracked files, as well as
the integrity of their crosslinks and indices.
Please see http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/RepositoryCor-
ruption for more information about recovery from corruption
of the repository.
Returns 0 on success, 1 if errors are encountered.
version
hg version
output version and copyright information
DATE FORMATS
Some commands allow the user to specify a date, e.g.:
o backout, commit, import, tag: Specify the commit date.
o log, revert, update: Select revision(s) by date.
Many date formats are valid. Here are some examples:
o Wed Dec 6 13:18:29 2006 (local timezone assumed)
o Dec 6 13:18 -0600 (year assumed, time offset provided)
o Dec 6 13:18 UTC (UTC and GMT are aliases for +0000)
o Dec 6 (midnight)
o 13:18 (today assumed)
o 3:39 (3:39AM assumed)
o 3:39pm (15:39)
o 2006-12-06 13:18:29 (ISO 8601 format)
o 2006-12-6 13:18
o 2006-12-6
o 12-6
o 12/6
o 12/6/6 (Dec 6 2006)
o today (midnight)
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o yesterday (midnight)
o now - right now
Lastly, there is Mercurial's internal format:
o 1165411109 0 (Wed Dec 6 13:18:29 2006 UTC)
This is the internal representation format for dates. The
first number is the number of seconds since the epoch
(1970-01-01 00:00 UTC). The second is the offset of the
local timezone, in seconds west of UTC (negative if the
timezone is east of UTC).
The log command also accepts date ranges:
o <DATE - at or before a given date/time
o >DATE - on or after a given date/time
o DATE to DATE - a date range, inclusive
o -DAYS - within a given number of days of today
DIFF FORMATS
Mercurial's default format for showing changes between two
versions of a file is compatible with the unified format of
GNU diff, which can be used by GNU patch and many other
standard tools.
While this standard format is often enough, it does not
encode the following information:
o executable status and other permission bits
o copy or rename information
o changes in binary files
o creation or deletion of empty files
Mercurial also supports the extended diff format from the
git VCS which addresses these limitations. The git diff for-
mat is not produced by default because a few widespread
tools still do not understand this format.
This means that when generating diffs from a Mercurial
repository (e.g. with hg export), you should be careful
about things like file copies and renames or other things
mentioned above, because when applying a standard diff to a
different repository, this extra information is lost. Mercu-
rial's internal operations (like push and pull) are not
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affected by this, because they use an internal binary format
for communicating changes.
To make Mercurial produce the git extended diff format, use
the --git option available for many commands, or set 'git =
True' in the [diff] section of your configuration file. You
do not need to set this option when importing diffs in this
format or using them in the mq extension.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
HG Path to the 'hg' executable, automatically passed when
running hooks, extensions or external tools. If unset
or empty, this is the hg executable's name if it's
frozen, or an executable named 'hg' (with %PATHEXT%
[defaulting to COM/EXE/BAT/CMD] extensions on Windows)
is searched.
HGEDITOR
This is the name of the editor to run when committing.
See EDITOR.
(deprecated, use configuration file)
HGENCODING
This overrides the default locale setting detected by
Mercurial. This setting is used to convert data
including usernames, changeset descriptions, tag names,
and branches. This setting can be overridden with the
--encoding command-line option.
HGENCODINGMODE
This sets Mercurial's behavior for handling unknown
characters while transcoding user input. The default is
"strict", which causes Mercurial to abort if it can't
map a character. Other settings include "replace",
which replaces unknown characters, and "ignore", which
drops them. This setting can be overridden with the
--encodingmode command-line option.
HGENCODINGAMBIGUOUS
This sets Mercurial's behavior for handling characters
with "ambiguous" widths like accented Latin characters
with East Asian fonts. By default, Mercurial assumes
ambiguous characters are narrow, set this variable to
"wide" if such characters cause formatting problems.
HGMERGE
An executable to use for resolving merge conflicts. The
program will be executed with three arguments: local
file, remote file, ancestor file.
(deprecated, use configuration file)
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HGRCPATH
A list of files or directories to search for configura-
tion files. Item separator is ":" on Unix, ";" on Win-
dows. If HGRCPATH is not set, platform default search
path is used. If empty, only the .hg/hgrc from the cur-
rent repository is read.
For each element in HGRCPATH:
o if it's a directory, all files ending with .rc are
added
o otherwise, the file itself will be added
HGPLAIN
When set, this disables any configuration settings that
might change Mercurial's default output. This includes
encoding, defaults, verbose mode, debug mode, quiet
mode, tracebacks, and localization. This can be useful
when scripting against Mercurial in the face of exist-
ing user configuration.
Equivalent options set via command line flags or envi-
ronment variables are not overridden.
HGPLAINEXCEPT
This is a comma-separated list of features to preserve
when HGPLAIN is enabled. Currently the only value sup-
ported is "i18n", which preserves internationalization
in plain mode.
Setting HGPLAINEXCEPT to anything (even an empty
string) will enable plain mode.
HGUSER
This is the string used as the author of a commit. If
not set, available values will be considered in this
order:
o HGUSER (deprecated)
o configuration files from the HGRCPATH
o EMAIL
o interactive prompt
o LOGNAME (with @hostname appended)
(deprecated, use configuration file)
EMAIL
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May be used as the author of a commit; see HGUSER.
LOGNAME
May be used as the author of a commit; see HGUSER.
VISUAL
This is the name of the editor to use when committing.
See EDITOR.
EDITOR
Sometimes Mercurial needs to open a text file in an
editor for a user to modify, for example when writing
commit messages. The editor it uses is determined by
looking at the environment variables HGEDITOR, VISUAL
and EDITOR, in that order. The first non-empty one is
chosen. If all of them are empty, the editor defaults
to 'vi'.
PYTHONPATH
This is used by Python to find imported modules and may
need to be set appropriately if this Mercurial is not
installed system-wide.
USING ADDITIONAL FEATURES
Mercurial has the ability to add new features through the
use of extensions. Extensions may add new commands, add
options to existing commands, change the default behavior of
commands, or implement hooks.
To enable the "foo" extension, either shipped with Mercurial
or in the Python search path, create an entry for it in your
configuration file, like this:
[extensions]
foo =
You may also specify the full path to an extension:
[extensions]
myfeature = ~/.hgext/myfeature.py
See hg help config for more information on configuration
files.
Extensions are not loaded by default for a variety of rea-
sons: they can increase startup overhead; they may be meant
for advanced usage only; they may provide potentially dan-
gerous abilities (such as letting you destroy or modify his-
tory); they might not be ready for prime time; or they may
alter some usual behaviors of stock Mercurial. It is thus up
to the user to activate extensions as needed.
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To explicitly disable an extension enabled in a configura-
tion file of broader scope, prepend its path with !:
[extensions]
# disabling extension bar residing in /path/to/extension/bar.py
bar = !/path/to/extension/bar.py
# ditto, but no path was supplied for extension baz
baz = !
disabled extensions:
acl hooks for controlling repository access
blackbox
log repository events to a blackbox for debugging
bugzilla
hooks for integrating with the Bugzilla bug tracker
children
command to display child changesets (DEPRECATED)
churn
command to display statistics about repository his-
tory
color
colorize output from some commands
convert
import revisions from foreign VCS repositories into
Mercurial
eol automatically manage newlines in repository files
extdiff
command to allow external programs to compare revi-
sions
factotum
http authentication with factotum
fetch
pull, update and merge in one command (DEPRECATED)
gpg commands to sign and verify changesets
graphlog
command to view revision graphs from a shell
hgcia
hooks for integrating with the CIA.vc notification
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service
hgk browse the repository in a graphical way
highlight
syntax highlighting for hgweb (requires Pygments)
histedit
interactive history editing
inotify
accelerate status report using Linux's inotify ser-
vice
interhg
expand expressions into changelog and summaries
keyword
expand keywords in tracked files
largefiles
track large binary files
mq manage a stack of patches
notify
hooks for sending email push notifications
pager
browse command output with an external pager
patchbomb
command to send changesets as (a series of) patch
emails
progress
show progress bars for some actions
purge
command to delete untracked files from the working
directory
rebase
command to move sets of revisions to a different
ancestor
record
commands to interactively select changes for com-
mit/qrefresh
relink
recreates hardlinks between repository clones
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schemes
extend schemes with shortcuts to repository swarms
share
share a common history between several working
directories
shelve
save and restore changes to the working directory
strip
strip changesets and their descendents from history
transplant
command to transplant changesets from another branch
win32mbcs
allow the use of MBCS paths with problematic encod-
ings
win32text
perform automatic newline conversion
zeroconf
discover and advertise repositories on the local
network
SPECIFYING FILE SETS
Mercurial supports a functional language for selecting a set
of files.
Like other file patterns, this pattern type is indicated by
a prefix, 'set:'. The language supports a number of predi-
cates which are joined by infix operators. Parenthesis can
be used for grouping.
Identifiers such as filenames or patterns must be quoted
with single or double quotes if they contain characters out-
side of [.*{}[]?/\_a-zA-Z0-9\x80-\xff] or if they match one
of the predefined predicates. This generally applies to file
patterns other than globs and arguments for predicates.
Special characters can be used in quoted identifiers by
escaping them, e.g., \n is interpreted as a newline. To pre-
vent them from being interpreted, strings can be prefixed
with r, e.g. r'...'.
There is a single prefix operator:
not x
Files not in x. Short form is ! x.
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These are the supported infix operators:
x and y
The intersection of files in x and y. Short form is x &
y.
x or y
The union of files in x and y. There are two alterna-
tive short forms: x | y and x + y.
x - y
Files in x but not in y.
The following predicates are supported:
added()
File that is added according to status.
binary()
File that appears to be binary (contains NUL bytes).
clean()
File that is clean according to status.
copied()
File that is recorded as being copied.
deleted()
File that is deleted according to status.
encoding(name)
File can be successfully decoded with the given charac-
ter encoding. May not be useful for encodings other
than ASCII and UTF-8.
eol(style)
File contains newlines of the given style (dos, unix,
mac). Binary files are excluded, files with mixed line
endings match multiple styles.
exec()
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File that is marked as executable.
grep(regex)
File contains the given regular expression.
hgignore()
File that matches the active .hgignore pattern.
ignored()
File that is ignored according to status. These files
will only be considered if this predicate is used.
modified()
File that is modified according to status.
removed()
File that is removed according to status.
resolved()
File that is marked resolved according to the resolve
state.
size(expression)
File size matches the given expression. Examples:
o 1k (files from 1024 to 2047 bytes)
o < 20k (files less than 20480 bytes)
o >= .5MB (files at least 524288 bytes)
o 4k - 1MB (files from 4096 bytes to 1048576 bytes)
subrepo([pattern])
Subrepositories whose paths match the given pattern.
symlink()
File that is marked as a symlink.
unknown()
File that is unknown according to status. These files
will only be considered if this predicate is used.
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unresolved()
File that is marked unresolved according to the resolve
state.
Some sample queries:
o Show status of files that appear to be binary in the work-
ing directory:
hg status -A "set:binary()"
o Forget files that are in .hgignore but are already
tracked:
hg forget "set:hgignore() and not ignored()"
o Find text files that contain a string:
hg locate "set:grep(magic) and not binary()"
o Find C files in a non-standard encoding:
hg locate "set:**.c and not encoding('UTF-8')"
o Revert copies of large binary files:
hg revert "set:copied() and binary() and size('>1M')"
o Remove files listed in foo.lst that contain the letter a
or b:
hg remove "set: 'listfile:foo.lst' and (**a* or **b*)"
See also hg help patterns.
GLOSSARY
Ancestor
Any changeset that can be reached by an unbroken chain
of parent changesets from a given changeset. More pre-
cisely, the ancestors of a changeset can be defined by
two properties: a parent of a changeset is an ancestor,
and a parent of an ancestor is an ancestor. See also:
'Descendant'.
Bookmark
Bookmarks are pointers to certain commits that move
when committing. They are similar to tags in that it is
possible to use bookmark names in all places where Mer-
curial expects a changeset ID, e.g., with hg update.
Unlike tags, bookmarks move along when you make a com-
mit.
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Bookmarks can be renamed, copied and deleted. Bookmarks
are local, unless they are explicitly pushed or pulled
between repositories. Pushing and pulling bookmarks
allow you to collaborate with others on a branch with-
out creating a named branch.
Branch
(Noun) A child changeset that has been created from a
parent that is not a head. These are known as topologi-
cal branches, see 'Branch, topological'. If a topologi-
cal branch is named, it becomes a named branch. If a
topological branch is not named, it becomes an anony-
mous branch. See 'Branch, anonymous' and 'Branch,
named'.
Branches may be created when changes are pulled from or
pushed to a remote repository, since new heads may be
created by these operations. Note that the term branch
can also be used informally to describe a development
process in which certain development is done indepen-
dently of other development. This is sometimes done
explicitly with a named branch, but it can also be done
locally, using bookmarks or clones and anonymous
branches.
Example: "The experimental branch".
(Verb) The action of creating a child changeset which
results in its parent having more than one child.
Example: "I'm going to branch at X".
Branch, anonymous
Every time a new child changeset is created from a par-
ent that is not a head and the name of the branch is
not changed, a new anonymous branch is created.
Branch, closed
A named branch whose branch heads have all been closed.
Branch, default
The branch assigned to a changeset when no name has
previously been assigned.
Branch head
See 'Head, branch'.
Branch, inactive
If a named branch has no topological heads, it is con-
sidered to be inactive. As an example, a feature branch
becomes inactive when it is merged into the default
branch. The hg branches command shows inactive branches
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by default, though they can be hidden with hg branches
--active.
NOTE: this concept is deprecated because it is too
implicit. Branches should now be explicitly closed
using hg commit --close-branch when they are no longer
needed.
Branch, named
A collection of changesets which have the same branch
name. By default, children of a changeset in a named
branch belong to the same named branch. A child can be
explicitly assigned to a different branch. See hg help
branch, hg help branches and hg commit --close-branch
for more information on managing branches.
Named branches can be thought of as a kind of names-
pace, dividing the collection of changesets that com-
prise the repository into a collection of disjoint sub-
sets. A named branch is not necessarily a topological
branch. If a new named branch is created from the head
of another named branch, or the default branch, but no
further changesets are added to that previous branch,
then that previous branch will be a branch in name
only.
Branch tip
See 'Tip, branch'.
Branch, topological
Every time a new child changeset is created from a par-
ent that is not a head, a new topological branch is
created. If a topological branch is named, it becomes a
named branch. If a topological branch is not named, it
becomes an anonymous branch of the current, possibly
default, branch.
Changelog
A record of the changesets in the order in which they
were added to the repository. This includes details
such as changeset id, author, commit message, date, and
list of changed files.
Changeset
A snapshot of the state of the repository used to
record a change.
Changeset, child
The converse of parent changeset: if P is a parent of
C, then C is a child of P. There is no limit to the
number of children that a changeset may have.
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Changeset id
A SHA-1 hash that uniquely identifies a changeset. It
may be represented as either a "long" 40 hexadecimal
digit string, or a "short" 12 hexadecimal digit string.
Changeset, merge
A changeset with two parents. This occurs when a merge
is committed.
Changeset, parent
A revision upon which a child changeset is based.
Specifically, a parent changeset of a changeset C is a
changeset whose node immediately precedes C in the DAG.
Changesets have at most two parents.
Checkout
(Noun) The working directory being updated to a spe-
cific revision. This use should probably be avoided
where possible, as changeset is much more appropriate
than checkout in this context.
Example: "I'm using checkout X."
(Verb) Updating the working directory to a specific
changeset. See hg help update.
Example: "I'm going to check out changeset X."
Child changeset
See 'Changeset, child'.
Close changeset
See 'Head, closed branch'
Closed branch
See 'Branch, closed'.
Clone
(Noun) An entire or partial copy of a repository. The
partial clone must be in the form of a revision and its
ancestors.
Example: "Is your clone up to date?".
(Verb) The process of creating a clone, using hg clone.
Example: "I'm going to clone the repository".
Closed branch head
See 'Head, closed branch'.
Commit
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(Noun) A synonym for changeset.
Example: "Is the bug fixed in your recent commit?"
(Verb) The act of recording changes to a repository.
When files are committed in a working directory, Mercu-
rial finds the differences between the committed files
and their parent changeset, creating a new changeset in
the repository.
Example: "You should commit those changes now."
Cset A common abbreviation of the term changeset.
DAG The repository of changesets of a distributed version
control system (DVCS) can be described as a directed
acyclic graph (DAG), consisting of nodes and edges,
where nodes correspond to changesets and edges imply a
parent -> child relation. This graph can be visualized
by graphical tools such as hg log --graph. In Mercu-
rial, the DAG is limited by the requirement for chil-
dren to have at most two parents.
Default branch
See 'Branch, default'.
Descendant
Any changeset that can be reached by a chain of child
changesets from a given changeset. More precisely, the
descendants of a changeset can be defined by two prop-
erties: the child of a changeset is a descendant, and
the child of a descendant is a descendant. See also:
'Ancestor'.
Diff (Noun) The difference between the contents and
attributes of files in two changesets or a changeset
and the current working directory. The difference is
usually represented in a standard form called a "diff"
or "patch". The "git diff" format is used when the
changes include copies, renames, or changes to file
attributes, none of which can be represented/handled by
classic "diff" and "patch".
Example: "Did you see my correction in the diff?"
(Verb) Diffing two changesets is the action of creating
a diff or patch.
Example: "If you diff with changeset X, you will see
what I mean."
Directory, working
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The working directory represents the state of the files
tracked by Mercurial, that will be recorded in the next
commit. The working directory initially corresponds to
the snapshot at an existing changeset, known as the
parent of the working directory. See 'Parent, working
directory'. The state may be modified by changes to the
files introduced manually or by a merge. The repository
metadata exists in the .hg directory inside the working
directory.
Draft
Changesets in the draft phase have not been shared with
publishing repositories and may thus be safely changed
by history-modifying extensions. See hg help phases.
Graph
See DAG and hg log --graph.
Head The term 'head' may be used to refer to both a branch
head or a repository head, depending on the context.
See 'Head, branch' and 'Head, repository' for specific
definitions.
Heads are where development generally takes place and
are the usual targets for update and merge operations.
Head, branch
A changeset with no descendants on the same named
branch.
Head, closed branch
A changeset that marks a head as no longer interesting.
The closed head is no longer listed by hg heads. A
branch is considered closed when all its heads are
closed and consequently is not listed by hg branches.
Closed heads can be re-opened by committing new change-
set as the child of the changeset that marks a head as
closed.
Head, repository
A topological head which has not been closed.
Head, topological
A changeset with no children in the repository.
History, immutable
Once committed, changesets cannot be altered. Exten-
sions which appear to change history actually create
new changesets that replace existing ones, and then
destroy the old changesets. Doing so in public reposi-
tories can result in old changesets being reintroduced
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to the repository.
History, rewriting
The changesets in a repository are immutable. However,
extensions to Mercurial can be used to alter the repos-
itory, usually in such a way as to preserve changeset
contents.
Immutable history
See 'History, immutable'.
Merge changeset
See 'Changeset, merge'.
Manifest
Each changeset has a manifest, which is the list of
files that are tracked by the changeset.
Merge
Used to bring together divergent branches of work. When
you update to a changeset and then merge another
changeset, you bring the history of the latter change-
set into your working directory. Once conflicts are
resolved (and marked), this merge may be committed as a
merge changeset, bringing two branches together in the
DAG.
Named branch
See 'Branch, named'.
Null changeset
The empty changeset. It is the parent state of
newly-initialized repositories and repositories with no
checked out revision. It is thus the parent of root
changesets and the effective ancestor when merging
unrelated changesets. Can be specified by the alias
'null' or by the changeset ID '000000000000'.
Parent
See 'Changeset, parent'.
Parent changeset
See 'Changeset, parent'.
Parent, working directory
The working directory parent reflects a virtual revi-
sion which is the child of the changeset (or two
changesets with an uncommitted merge) shown by hg par-
ents. This is changed with hg update. Other commands to
see the working directory parent are hg summary and hg
id. Can be specified by the alias ".".
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Patch
(Noun) The product of a diff operation.
Example: "I've sent you my patch."
(Verb) The process of using a patch file to transform
one changeset into another.
Example: "You will need to patch that revision."
Phase
A per-changeset state tracking how the changeset has
been or should be shared. See hg help phases.
Public
Changesets in the public phase have been shared with
publishing repositories and are therefore considered
immutable. See hg help phases.
Pull An operation in which changesets in a remote repository
which are not in the local repository are brought into
the local repository. Note that this operation without
special arguments only updates the repository, it does
not update the files in the working directory. See hg
help pull.
Push An operation in which changesets in a local repository
which are not in a remote repository are sent to the
remote repository. Note that this operation only adds
changesets which have been committed locally to the
remote repository. Uncommitted changes are not sent.
See hg help push.
Repository
The metadata describing all recorded states of a col-
lection of files. Each recorded state is represented by
a changeset. A repository is usually (but not always)
found in the .hg subdirectory of a working directory.
Any recorded state can be recreated by "updating" a
working directory to a specific changeset.
Repository head
See 'Head, repository'.
Revision
A state of the repository at some point in time. Ear-
lier revisions can be updated to by using hg update.
See also 'Revision number'; See also 'Changeset'.
Revision number
This integer uniquely identifies a changeset in a spe-
cific repository. It represents the order in which
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changesets were added to a repository, starting with
revision number 0. Note that the revision number may be
different in each clone of a repository. To identify
changesets uniquely between different clones, see
'Changeset id'.
Revlog
History storage mechanism used by Mercurial. It is a
form of delta encoding, with occasional full revision
of data followed by delta of each successive revision.
It includes data and an index pointing to the data.
Rewriting history
See 'History, rewriting'.
Root A changeset that has only the null changeset as its
parent. Most repositories have only a single root
changeset.
Secret
Changesets in the secret phase may not be shared via
push, pull, or clone. See hg help phases.
Tag An alternative name given to a changeset. Tags can be
used in all places where Mercurial expects a changeset
ID, e.g., with hg update. The creation of a tag is
stored in the history and will thus automatically be
shared with other using push and pull.
Tip The changeset with the highest revision number. It is
the changeset most recently added in a repository.
Tip, branch
The head of a given branch with the highest revision
number. When a branch name is used as a revision iden-
tifier, it refers to the branch tip. See also 'Branch,
head'. Note that because revision numbers may be dif-
ferent in different repository clones, the branch tip
may be different in different cloned repositories.
Update
(Noun) Another synonym of changeset.
Example: "I've pushed an update".
(Verb) This term is usually used to describe updating
the state of the working directory to that of a spe-
cific changeset. See hg help update.
Example: "You should update".
Working directory
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See 'Directory, working'.
Working directory parent
See 'Parent, working directory'.
SYNTAX FOR MERCURIAL IGNORE FILES
Synopsis
The Mercurial system uses a file called .hgignore in the
root directory of a repository to control its behavior when
it searches for files that it is not currently tracking.
Description
The working directory of a Mercurial repository will often
contain files that should not be tracked by Mercurial. These
include backup files created by editors and build products
created by compilers. These files can be ignored by listing
them in a .hgignore file in the root of the working direc-
tory. The .hgignore file must be created manually. It is
typically put under version control, so that the settings
will propagate to other repositories with push and pull.
An untracked file is ignored if its path relative to the
repository root directory, or any prefix path of that path,
is matched against any pattern in .hgignore.
For example, say we have an untracked file, file.c, at
a/b/file.c inside our repository. Mercurial will ignore
file.c if any pattern in .hgignore matches a/b/file.c, a/b
or a.
In addition, a Mercurial configuration file can reference a
set of per-user or global ignore files. See the ignore con-
figuration key on the [ui] section of hg help config for
details of how to configure these files.
To control Mercurial's handling of files that it manages,
many commands support the -I and -X options; see hg help
<command> and hg help patterns for details.
Files that are already tracked are not affected by .hgig-
nore, even if they appear in .hgignore. An untracked file X
can be explicitly added with hg add X, even if X would be
excluded by a pattern in .hgignore.
Syntax
An ignore file is a plain text file consisting of a list of
patterns, with one pattern per line. Empty lines are
skipped. The # character is treated as a comment character,
and the \ character is treated as an escape character.
Mercurial supports several pattern syntaxes. The default
syntax used is Python/Perl-style regular expressions.
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To change the syntax used, use a line of the following form:
syntax: NAME
where NAME is one of the following:
regexp
Regular expression, Python/Perl syntax.
glob
Shell-style glob.
The chosen syntax stays in effect when parsing all patterns
that follow, until another syntax is selected.
Neither glob nor regexp patterns are rooted. A glob-syntax
pattern of the form *.c will match a file ending in .c in
any directory, and a regexp pattern of the form \.c$ will do
the same. To root a regexp pattern, start it with ^.
Note Patterns specified in other than .hgignore are always
rooted. Please see hg help patterns for details.
Example
Here is an example ignore file.
# use glob syntax.
syntax: glob
*.elc
*.pyc
*~
# switch to regexp syntax.
syntax: regexp
^\.pc/
CONFIGURING HGWEB
Mercurial's internal web server, hgweb, can serve either a
single repository, or a tree of repositories. In the second
case, repository paths and global options can be defined
using a dedicated configuration file common to hg serve,
hgweb.wsgi, hgweb.cgi and hgweb.fcgi.
This file uses the same syntax as other Mercurial configura-
tion files but recognizes only the following sections:
o web
o paths
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o collections
The web options are thoroughly described in hg help config.
The paths section maps URL paths to paths of repositories in
the filesystem. hgweb will not expose the filesystem
directly - only Mercurial repositories can be published and
only according to the configuration.
The left hand side is the path in the URL. Note that hgweb
reserves subpaths like rev or file, try using different
names for nested repositories to avoid confusing effects.
The right hand side is the path in the filesystem. If the
specified path ends with * or ** the filesystem will be
searched recursively for repositories below that point.
With * it will not recurse into the repositories it finds
(except for .hg/patches). With ** it will also search
inside repository working directories and possibly find sub-
repositories.
In this example:
[paths]
/projects/a = /srv/tmprepos/a
/projects/b = c:/repos/b
/ = /srv/repos/*
/user/bob = /home/bob/repos/**
o The first two entries make two repositories in different
directories appear under the same directory in the web
interface
o The third entry will publish every Mercurial repository
found in /srv/repos/, for instance the repository
/srv/repos/quux/ will appear as http://server/quux/
o The fourth entry will publish both
http://server/user/bob/quux/ and
http://server/user/bob/quux/testsubrepo/
The collections section is deprecated and has been super-
seded by paths.
MERGE TOOLS
To merge files Mercurial uses merge tools.
A merge tool combines two different versions of a file into
a merged file. Merge tools are given the two files and the
greatest common ancestor of the two file versions, so they
can determine the changes made on both branches.
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Merge tools are used both for hg resolve, hg merge, hg
update, hg backout and in several extensions.
Usually, the merge tool tries to automatically reconcile the
files by combining all non-overlapping changes that occurred
separately in the two different evolutions of the same ini-
tial base file. Furthermore, some interactive merge programs
make it easier to manually resolve conflicting merges,
either in a graphical way, or by inserting some conflict
markers. Mercurial does not include any interactive merge
programs but relies on external tools for that.
Available merge tools
External merge tools and their properties are configured in
the merge-tools configuration section - see hgrc(5) - but
they can often just be named by their executable.
A merge tool is generally usable if its executable can be
found on the system and if it can handle the merge. The exe-
cutable is found if it is an absolute or relative executable
path or the name of an application in the executable search
path. The tool is assumed to be able to handle the merge if
it can handle symlinks if the file is a symlink, if it can
handle binary files if the file is binary, and if a GUI is
available if the tool requires a GUI.
There are some internal merge tools which can be used. The
internal merge tools are:
internal:dump
Creates three versions of the files to merge, contain-
ing the contents of local, other and base. These files
can then be used to perform a merge manually. If the
file to be merged is named a.txt, these files will
accordingly be named a.txt.local, a.txt.other and
a.txt.base and they will be placed in the same direc-
tory as a.txt.
internal:fail
Rather than attempting to merge files that were modi-
fied on both branches, it marks them as unresolved. The
resolve command must be used to resolve these con-
flicts.
internal:local
Uses the local version of files as the merged version.
internal:merge
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Uses the internal non-interactive simple merge algo-
rithm for merging files. It will fail if there are any
conflicts and leave markers in the partially merged
file.
internal:other
Uses the other version of files as the merged version.
internal:prompt
Asks the user which of the local or the other version
to keep as the merged version.
Internal tools are always available and do not require a GUI
but will by default not handle symlinks or binary files.
Choosing a merge tool
Mercurial uses these rules when deciding which merge tool to
use:
1. If a tool has been specified with the --tool option to
merge or resolve, it is used. If it is the name of a
tool in the merge-tools configuration, its configuration
is used. Otherwise the specified tool must be executable
by the shell.
2. If the HGMERGE environment variable is present, its value
is used and must be executable by the shell.
3. If the filename of the file to be merged matches any of
the patterns in the merge-patterns configuration section,
the first usable merge tool corresponding to a matching
pattern is used. Here, binary capabilities of the merge
tool are not considered.
4. If ui.merge is set it will be considered next. If the
value is not the name of a configured tool, the specified
value is used and must be executable by the shell. Other-
wise the named tool is used if it is usable.
5. If any usable merge tools are present in the merge-tools
configuration section, the one with the highest priority
is used.
6. If a program named hgmerge can be found on the system, it
is used - but it will by default not be used for symlinks
and binary files.
7. If the file to be merged is not binary and is not a sym-
link, then internal:merge is used.
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8. The merge of the file fails and must be resolved before
commit.
Note After selecting a merge program, Mercurial will by
default attempt to merge the files using a simple merge
algorithm first. Only if it doesn't succeed because of
conflicting changes Mercurial will actually execute the
merge program. Whether to use the simple merge algo-
rithm first can be controlled by the premerge setting
of the merge tool. Premerge is enabled by default
unless the file is binary or a symlink.
See the merge-tools and ui sections of hgrc(5) for details
on the configuration of merge tools.
SPECIFYING MULTIPLE REVISIONS
When Mercurial accepts more than one revision, they may be
specified individually, or provided as a topologically con-
tinuous range, separated by the ":" character.
The syntax of range notation is [BEGIN]:[END], where BEGIN
and END are revision identifiers. Both BEGIN and END are
optional. If BEGIN is not specified, it defaults to revision
number 0. If END is not specified, it defaults to the tip.
The range ":" thus means "all revisions".
If BEGIN is greater than END, revisions are treated in
reverse order.
A range acts as a closed interval. This means that a range
of 3:5 gives 3, 4 and 5. Similarly, a range of 9:6 gives 9,
8, 7, and 6.
FILE NAME PATTERNS
Mercurial accepts several notations for identifying one or
more files at a time.
By default, Mercurial treats filenames as shell-style
extended glob patterns.
Alternate pattern notations must be specified explicitly.
Note Patterns specified in .hgignore are not rooted. Please
see hg help hgignore for details.
To use a plain path name without any pattern matching, start
it with path:. These path names must completely match start-
ing at the current repository root.
To use an extended glob, start a name with glob:. Globs are
rooted at the current directory; a glob such as *.c will
only match files in the current directory ending with .c.
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The supported glob syntax extensions are ** to match any
string across path separators and {a,b} to mean "a or b".
To use a Perl/Python regular expression, start a name with
re:. Regexp pattern matching is anchored at the root of the
repository.
To read name patterns from a file, use listfile: or list-
file0:. The latter expects null delimited patterns while
the former expects line feeds. Each string read from the
file is itself treated as a file pattern.
Plain examples:
path:foo/bar a name bar in a directory named foo in the root
of the repository
path:path:name a file or directory named "path:name"
Glob examples:
glob:*.c any name ending in ".c" in the current directory
*.c any name ending in ".c" in the current directory
**.c any name ending in ".c" in any subdirectory of the
current directory including itself.
foo/*.c any name ending in ".c" in the directory foo
foo/**.c any name ending in ".c" in any subdirectory of foo
including itself.
Regexp examples:
re:.*\.c$ any name ending in ".c", anywhere in the repository
File examples:
listfile:list.txt read list from list.txt with one file pattern per line
listfile0:list.txt read list from list.txt with null byte delimiters
See also hg help filesets.
WORKING WITH PHASES
What are phases?
Phases are a system for tracking which changesets have been
or should be shared. This helps prevent common mistakes when
modifying history (for instance, with the mq or rebase
extensions).
Each changeset in a repository is in one of the following
phases:
o public : changeset is visible on a public server
o draft : changeset is not yet published
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o secret : changeset should not be pushed, pulled, or
cloned
These phases are ordered (public < draft < secret) and no
changeset can be in a lower phase than its ancestors. For
instance, if a changeset is public, all its ancestors are
also public. Lastly, changeset phases should only be changed
towards the public phase.
How are phases managed?
For the most part, phases should work transparently. By
default, a changeset is created in the draft phase and is
moved into the public phase when it is pushed to another
repository.
Once changesets become public, extensions like mq and rebase
will refuse to operate on them to prevent creating duplicate
changesets. Phases can also be manually manipulated with
the hg phase command if needed. See hg help -v phase for
examples.
Phases and servers
Normally, all servers are publishing by default. This means:
- all draft changesets that are pulled or cloned appear in phase
public on the client
- all draft changesets that are pushed appear as public on both
client and server
- secret changesets are neither pushed, pulled, or cloned
Note Pulling a draft changeset from a publishing server does
not mark it as public on the server side due to the
read-only nature of pull.
Sometimes it may be desirable to push and pull changesets in
the draft phase to share unfinished work. This can be done
by setting a repository to disable publishing in its config-
uration file:
[phases]
publish = False
See hg help config for more information on configuration
files.
Note
Servers running older versions of Mercurial are treated as
publishing.
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Examples
o list changesets in draft or secret phase:
hg log -r "not public()"
o change all secret changesets to draft:
hg phase --draft "secret()"
o forcibly move the current changeset and descendants
from public to draft:
hg phase --force --draft .
o show a list of changeset revision and phase:
hg log --template "{rev} {phase}\n"
o resynchronize draft changesets relative to a remote
repository:
hg phase -fd "outgoing(URL)"
See hg help phase for more information on manually manipu-
lating phases.
SPECIFYING SINGLE REVISIONS
Mercurial supports several ways to specify individual revi-
sions.
A plain integer is treated as a revision number. Negative
integers are treated as sequential offsets from the tip,
with -1 denoting the tip, -2 denoting the revision prior to
the tip, and so forth.
A 40-digit hexadecimal string is treated as a unique revi-
sion identifier.
A hexadecimal string less than 40 characters long is treated
as a unique revision identifier and is referred to as a
short-form identifier. A short-form identifier is only valid
if it is the prefix of exactly one full-length identifier.
Any other string is treated as a bookmark, tag, or branch
name. A bookmark is a movable pointer to a revision. A tag
is a permanent name associated with a revision. A branch
name denotes the tipmost revision of that branch. Bookmark,
tag, and branch names must not contain the ":" character.
The reserved name "tip" always identifies the most recent
revision.
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The reserved name "null" indicates the null revision. This
is the revision of an empty repository, and the parent of
revision 0.
The reserved name "." indicates the working directory par-
ent. If no working directory is checked out, it is equiva-
lent to null. If an uncommitted merge is in progress, "." is
the revision of the first parent.
SPECIFYING REVISION SETS
Mercurial supports a functional language for selecting a set
of revisions.
The language supports a number of predicates which are
joined by infix operators. Parenthesis can be used for
grouping.
Identifiers such as branch names may need quoting with sin-
gle or double quotes if they contain characters like - or if
they match one of the predefined predicates.
Special characters can be used in quoted identifiers by
escaping them, e.g., \n is interpreted as a newline. To pre-
vent them from being interpreted, strings can be prefixed
with r, e.g. r'...'.
There is a single prefix operator:
not x
Changesets not in x. Short form is ! x.
These are the supported infix operators:
x::y
A DAG range, meaning all changesets that are descen-
dants of x and ancestors of y, including x and y them-
selves. If the first endpoint is left out, this is
equivalent to ancestors(y), if the second is left out
it is equivalent to descendants(x).
An alternative syntax is x..y.
x:y
All changesets with revision numbers between x and y,
both inclusive. Either endpoint can be left out, they
default to 0 and tip.
x and y
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The intersection of changesets in x and y. Short form
is x & y.
x or y
The union of changesets in x and y. There are two
alternative short forms: x | y and x + y.
x - y
Changesets in x but not in y.
x^n
The nth parent of x, n == 0, 1, or 2. For n == 0, x;
for n == 1, the first parent of each changeset in x;
for n == 2, the second parent of changeset in x.
x~n
The nth first ancestor of x; x~0 is x; x~3 is x^^^.
There is a single postfix operator:
x^
Equivalent to x^1, the first parent of each changeset
in x.
The following predicates are supported:
adds(pattern)
Changesets that add a file matching pattern.
all()
All changesets, the same as 0:tip.
ancestor(*changeset)
Greatest common ancestor of the changesets.
Accepts 0 or more changesets. Will return empty list
when passed no args. Greatest common ancestor of a
single changeset is that changeset.
ancestors(set)
Changesets that are ancestors of a changeset in set.
author(string)
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Alias for user(string).
bisect(string)
Changesets marked in the specified bisect status:
o good, bad, skip: csets explicitly marked as
good/bad/skip
o goods, bads : csets topologically good/bad
o range : csets taking part in the
bisection
o pruned : csets that are goods, bads or
skipped
o untested : csets whose fate is yet
unknown
o ignored : csets ignored due to DAG
topology
o current : the cset currently being
bisected
bookmark([name])
The named bookmark or all bookmarks.
If name starts with re:, the remainder of the name is
treated as a regular expression. To match a bookmark
that actually starts with re:, use the prefix literal:.
branch(string or set)
All changesets belonging to the given branch or the
branches of the given changesets.
If string starts with re:, the remainder of the name is
treated as a regular expression. To match a branch that
actually starts with re:, use the prefix literal:.
branchpoint()
Changesets with more than one child.
bumped()
Mutable changesets marked as successors of public
changesets.
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Only non-public and non-obsolete changesets can be
bumped.
bundle()
Changesets in the bundle.
Bundle must be specified by the -R option.
children(set)
Child changesets of changesets in set.
closed()
Changeset is closed.
contains(pattern)
Revision contains a file matching pattern. See hg help
patterns for information about file patterns.
converted([id])
Changesets converted from the given identifier in the
old repository if present, or all converted changesets
if no identifier is specified.
date(interval)
Changesets within the interval, see hg help dates.
desc(string)
Search commit message for string. The match is
case-insensitive.
descendants(set)
Changesets which are descendants of changesets in set.
destination([set])
Changesets that were created by a graft, transplant or
rebase operation, with the given revisions specified as
the source. Omitting the optional set is the same as
passing all().
divergent()
Final successors of changesets with an alternative set
of final successors.
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draft()
Changeset in draft phase.
extinct()
Obsolete changesets with obsolete descendants only.
extra(label, [value])
Changesets with the given label in the extra metadata,
with the given optional value.
If value starts with re:, the remainder of the value is
treated as a regular expression. To match a value that
actually starts with re:, use the prefix literal:.
file(pattern)
Changesets affecting files matched by pattern.
For a faster but less accurate result, consider using
filelog() instead.
filelog(pattern)
Changesets connected to the specified filelog.
For performance reasons, filelog() does not show every
changeset that affects the requested file(s). See hg
help log for details. For a slower, more accurate
result, use file().
first(set, [n])
An alias for limit().
follow([file])
An alias for ::. (ancestors of the working copy's first
parent). If a filename is specified, the history of
the given file is followed, including copies.
grep(regex)
Like keyword(string) but accepts a regex. Use
grep(r'...') to ensure special escape characters are
handled correctly. Unlike keyword(string), the match is
case-sensitive.
head()
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Changeset is a named branch head.
heads(set)
Members of set with no children in set.
hidden()
Hidden changesets.
id(string)
Revision non-ambiguously specified by the given hex
string prefix.
keyword(string)
Search commit message, user name, and names of changed
files for string. The match is case-insensitive.
last(set, [n])
Last n members of set, defaulting to 1.
limit(set, [n])
First n members of set, defaulting to 1.
matching(revision [, field])
Changesets in which a given set of fields match the set
of fields in the selected revision or set.
To match more than one field pass the list of fields to
match separated by spaces (e.g. author description).
Valid fields are most regular revision fields and some
special fields.
Regular revision fields are description, author,
branch, date, files, phase, parents, substate, user and
diff. Note that author and user are synonyms. diff
refers to the contents of the revision. Two revisions
matching their diff will also match their files.
Special fields are summary and metadata: summary
matches the first line of the description. metadata is
equivalent to matching description user date (i.e. it
matches the main metadata fields).
metadata is the default field which is used when no
fields are specified. You can match more than one field
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at a time.
max(set)
Changeset with highest revision number in set.
merge()
Changeset is a merge changeset.
min(set)
Changeset with lowest revision number in set.
modifies(pattern)
Changesets modifying files matched by pattern.
obsolete()
Mutable changeset with a newer version.
origin([set])
Changesets that were specified as a source for the
grafts, transplants or rebases that created the given
revisions. Omitting the optional set is the same as
passing all(). If a changeset created by these opera-
tions is itself specified as a source for one of these
operations, only the source changeset for the first
operation is selected.
outgoing([path])
Changesets not found in the specified destination
repository, or the default push location.
p1([set])
First parent of changesets in set, or the working
directory.
p2([set])
Second parent of changesets in set, or the working
directory.
parents([set])
The set of all parents for all changesets in set, or
the working directory.
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present(set)
An empty set, if any revision in set isn't found; oth-
erwise, all revisions in set.
If any of specified revisions is not present in the
local repository, the query is normally aborted. But
this predicate allows the query to continue even in
such cases.
public()
Changeset in public phase.
remote([id [,path]])
Local revision that corresponds to the given identifier
in a remote repository, if present. Here, the '.' iden-
tifier is a synonym for the current local branch.
removes(pattern)
Changesets which remove files matching pattern.
rev(number)
Revision with the given numeric identifier.
reverse(set)
Reverse order of set.
roots(set)
Changesets in set with no parent changeset in set.
secret()
Changeset in secret phase.
sort(set[, [-]key...])
Sort set by keys. The default sort order is ascending,
specify a key as -key to sort in descending order.
The keys can be:
o rev for the revision number,
o branch for the branch name,
o desc for the commit message (description),
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o user for user name (author can be used as an
alias),
o date for the commit date
tag([name])
The specified tag by name, or all tagged revisions if
no name is given.
unstable()
Non-obsolete changesets with obsolete ancestors.
user(string)
User name contains string. The match is case-insensi-
tive.
If string starts with re:, the remainder of the string
is treated as a regular expression. To match a user
that actually contains re:, use the prefix literal:.
New predicates (known as "aliases") can be defined, using
any combination of existing predicates or other aliases. An
alias definition looks like:
<alias> = <definition>
in the revsetalias section of a Mercurial configuration
file. Arguments of the form $1, $2, etc. are substituted
from the alias into the definition.
For example,
[revsetalias]
h = heads()
d($1) = sort($1, date)
rs($1, $2) = reverse(sort($1, $2))
defines three aliases, h, d, and rs. rs(0:tip, author) is
exactly equivalent to reverse(sort(0:tip, author)).
Command line equivalents for hg log:
-f -> ::.
-d x -> date(x)
-k x -> keyword(x)
-m -> merge()
-u x -> user(x)
-b x -> branch(x)
-P x -> !::x
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-l x -> limit(expr, x)
Some sample queries:
o Changesets on the default branch:
hg log -r "branch(default)"
o Changesets on the default branch since tag 1.5 (excluding
merges):
hg log -r "branch(default) and 1.5:: and not merge()"
o Open branch heads:
hg log -r "head() and not closed()"
o Changesets between tags 1.3 and 1.5 mentioning "bug" that
affect hgext/*:
hg log -r "1.3::1.5 and keyword(bug) and file('hgext/*')"
o Changesets committed in May 2008, sorted by user:
hg log -r "sort(date('May 2008'), user)"
o Changesets mentioning "bug" or "issue" that are not in a
tagged release:
hg log -r "(keyword(bug) or keyword(issue)) and not ancestors(tag())"
SUBREPOSITORIES
Subrepositories let you nest external repositories or
projects into a parent Mercurial repository, and make com-
mands operate on them as a group.
Mercurial currently supports Mercurial, Git, and Subversion
subrepositories.
Subrepositories are made of three components:
1. Nested repository checkouts. They can appear anywhere in
the parent working directory.
2. Nested repository references. They are defined in .hgsub,
which should be placed in the root of working directory,
and tell where the subrepository checkouts come from.
Mercurial subrepositories are referenced like:
path/to/nested = https://example.com/nested/repo/path
Git and Subversion subrepos are also supported:
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path/to/nested = [git]git://example.com/nested/repo/path
path/to/nested = [svn]https://example.com/nested/trunk/path
where path/to/nested is the checkout location relatively
to the parent Mercurial root, and https://exam-
ple.com/nested/repo/path is the source repository path.
The source can also reference a filesystem path.
Note that .hgsub does not exist by default in Mercurial
repositories, you have to create and add it to the parent
repository before using subrepositories.
3. Nested repository states. They are defined in .hgsub-
state, which is placed in the root of working directory,
and capture whatever information is required to restore
the subrepositories to the state they were committed in a
parent repository changeset. Mercurial automatically
record the nested repositories states when committing in
the parent repository.
Note
The .hgsubstate file should not be edited manually.
Adding a Subrepository
If .hgsub does not exist, create it and add it to the parent
repository. Clone or checkout the external projects where
you want it to live in the parent repository. Edit .hgsub
and add the subrepository entry as described above. At this
point, the subrepository is tracked and the next commit will
record its state in .hgsubstate and bind it to the committed
changeset.
Synchronizing a Subrepository
Subrepos do not automatically track the latest changeset of
their sources. Instead, they are updated to the changeset
that corresponds with the changeset checked out in the
top-level changeset. This is so developers always get a con-
sistent set of compatible code and libraries when they
update.
Thus, updating subrepos is a manual process. Simply check
out target subrepo at the desired revision, test in the
top-level repo, then commit in the parent repository to
record the new combination.
Deleting a Subrepository
To remove a subrepository from the parent repository, delete
its reference from .hgsub, then remove its files.
Interaction with Mercurial Commands
add add does not recurse in subrepos unless -S/--subrepos
is specified. However, if you specify the full path of
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a file in a subrepo, it will be added even without
-S/--subrepos specified. Git and Subversion subreposi-
tories are currently silently ignored.
archive
archive does not recurse in subrepositories unless
-S/--subrepos is specified.
commit
commit creates a consistent snapshot of the state of
the entire project and its subrepositories. If any sub-
repositories have been modified, Mercurial will abort.
Mercurial can be made to instead commit all modified
subrepositories by specifying -S/--subrepos, or setting
"ui.commitsubrepos=True" in a configuration file (see
hg help config). After there are no longer any modi-
fied subrepositories, it records their state and
finally commits it in the parent repository.
diff diff does not recurse in subrepos unless -S/--subrepos
is specified. Changes are displayed as usual, on the
subrepositories elements. Git and Subversion subreposi-
tories are currently silently ignored.
forget
forget currently only handles exact file matches in
subrepos. Git and Subversion subrepositories are cur-
rently silently ignored.
incoming
incoming does not recurse in subrepos unless -S/--sub-
repos is specified. Git and Subversion subrepositories
are currently silently ignored.
outgoing
outgoing does not recurse in subrepos unless -S/--sub-
repos is specified. Git and Subversion subrepositories
are currently silently ignored.
pull pull is not recursive since it is not clear what to
pull prior to running hg update. Listing and retrieving
all subrepositories changes referenced by the parent
repository pulled changesets is expensive at best,
impossible in the Subversion case.
push Mercurial will automatically push all subrepositories
first when the parent repository is being pushed. This
ensures new subrepository changes are available when
referenced by top-level repositories. Push is a no-op
for Subversion subrepositories.
status
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status does not recurse into subrepositories unless
-S/--subrepos is specified. Subrepository changes are
displayed as regular Mercurial changes on the subrepos-
itory elements. Subversion subrepositories are cur-
rently silently ignored.
update
update restores the subrepos in the state they were
originally committed in target changeset. If the
recorded changeset is not available in the current sub-
repository, Mercurial will pull it in first before
updating. This means that updating can require network
access when using subrepositories.
Remapping Subrepositories Sources
A subrepository source location may change during a project
life, invalidating references stored in the parent reposi-
tory history. To fix this, rewriting rules can be defined in
parent repository hgrc file or in Mercurial configuration.
See the [subpaths] section in hgrc(5) for more details.
TEMPLATE USAGE
Mercurial allows you to customize output of commands through
templates. You can either pass in a template from the com-
mand line, via the --template option, or select an existing
template-style (--style).
You can customize output for any "log-like" command: log,
outgoing, incoming, tip, parents, heads and glog.
Five styles are packaged with Mercurial: default (the style
used when no explicit preference is passed), compact,
changelog, phases and xml. Usage:
$ hg log -r1 --style changelog
A template is a piece of text, with markup to invoke vari-
able expansion:
$ hg log -r1 --template "{node}\n"
b56ce7b07c52de7d5fd79fb89701ea538af65746
Strings in curly braces are called keywords. The availabil-
ity of keywords depends on the exact context of the tem-
plater. These keywords are usually available for templating
a log-like command:
author
String. The unmodified author of the changeset.
bisect
String. The changeset bisection status.
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bookmarks
List of strings. Any bookmarks associated with the
changeset.
branch
String. The name of the branch on which the changeset
was committed.
branches
List of strings. The name of the branch on which the
changeset was committed. Will be empty if the branch
name was default.
children
List of strings. The children of the changeset.
date Date information. The date when the changeset was com-
mitted.
desc String. The text of the changeset description.
diffstat
String. Statistics of changes with the following for-
mat: "modified files: +added/-removed lines"
file_adds
List of strings. Files added by this changeset.
file_copies
List of strings. Files copied in this changeset with
their sources.
file_copies_switch
List of strings. Like "file_copies" but displayed only
if the --copied switch is set.
file_dels
List of strings. Files removed by this changeset.
file_mods
List of strings. Files modified by this changeset.
files
List of strings. All files modified, added, or removed
by this changeset.
latesttag
String. Most recent global tag in the ancestors of this
changeset.
latesttagdistance
Integer. Longest path to the latest tag.
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node String. The changeset identification hash, as a 40
hexadecimal digit string.
p1node
String. The identification hash of the changeset's
first parent, as a 40 digit hexadecimal string. If the
changeset has no parents, all digits are 0.
p1rev
Integer. The repository-local revision number of the
changeset's first parent, or -1 if the changeset has no
parents.
p2node
String. The identification hash of the changeset's sec-
ond parent, as a 40 digit hexadecimal string. If the
changeset has no second parent, all digits are 0.
p2rev
Integer. The repository-local revision number of the
changeset's second parent, or -1 if the changeset has
no second parent.
parents
List of strings. The parents of the changeset in
"rev:node" format. If the changeset has only one "natu-
ral" parent (the predecessor revision) nothing is
shown.
phase
String. The changeset phase name.
phaseidx
Integer. The changeset phase index.
rev Integer. The repository-local changeset revision num-
ber.
tags List of strings. Any tags associated with the change-
set.
The "date" keyword does not produce human-readable output.
If you want to use a date in your output, you can use a fil-
ter to process it. Filters are functions which return a
string based on the input variable. Be sure to use the
stringify filter first when you're applying a string-input
filter to a list-like input variable. You can also use a
chain of filters to get the desired output:
$ hg tip --template "{date|isodate}\n"
2008-08-21 18:22 +0000
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List of filters:
addbreaks
Any text. Add an XHTML "<br />" tag before the end of
every line except the last.
age Date. Returns a human-readable date/time difference
between the given date/time and the current date/time.
basename
Any text. Treats the text as a path, and returns the
last component of the path after splitting by the path
separator (ignoring trailing separators). For example,
"foo/bar/baz" becomes "baz" and "foo/bar//" becomes
"bar".
date Date. Returns a date in a Unix date format, including
the timezone: "Mon Sep 04 15:13:13 2006 0700".
domain
Any text. Finds the first string that looks like an
email address, and extracts just the domain component.
Example: User <[email protected]> becomes example.com.
email
Any text. Extracts the first string that looks like an
email address. Example: User <[email protected]> becomes
[email protected].
emailuser
Any text. Returns the user portion of an email address.
escape
Any text. Replaces the special XML/XHTML characters
"&", "<" and ">" with XML entities, and filters out NUL
characters.
fill68
Any text. Wraps the text to fit in 68 columns.
fill76
Any text. Wraps the text to fit in 76 columns.
firstline
Any text. Returns the first line of text.
hex Any text. Convert a binary Mercurial node identifier
into its long hexadecimal representation.
hgdate
Date. Returns the date as a pair of numbers:
"1157407993 25200" (Unix timestamp, timezone offset).
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isodate
Date. Returns the date in ISO 8601 format: "2009-08-18
13:00 +0200".
isodatesec
Date. Returns the date in ISO 8601 format, including
seconds: "2009-08-18 13:00:13 +0200". See also the
rfc3339date filter.
localdate
Date. Converts a date to local date.
nonempty
Any text. Returns '(none)' if the string is empty.
obfuscate
Any text. Returns the input text rendered as a sequence
of XML entities.
person
Any text. Returns the name before an email address,
interpreting it as per RFC 5322.
rfc3339date
Date. Returns a date using the Internet date format
specified in RFC 3339: "2009-08-18T13:00:13+02:00".
rfc822date
Date. Returns a date using the same format used in
email headers: "Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:00:13 +0200".
short
Changeset hash. Returns the short form of a changeset
hash, i.e. a 12 hexadecimal digit string.
shortbisect
Any text. Treats text as a bisection status, and
returns a single-character representing the status (G:
good, B: bad, S: skipped, U: untested, I: ignored).
Returns single space if text is not a valid bisection
status.
shortdate
Date. Returns a date like "2006-09-18".
stringify
Any type. Turns the value into text by converting val-
ues into text and concatenating them.
strip
Any text. Strips all leading and trailing whitespace.
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stripdir
Treat the text as path and strip a directory level, if
possible. For example, "foo" and "foo/bar" becomes
"foo".
tabindent
Any text. Returns the text, with every non-empty line
except the first starting with a tab character.
urlescape
Any text. Escapes all "special" characters. For exam-
ple, "foo bar" becomes "foo%20bar".
user Any text. Returns a short representation of a user name
or email address.
Note that a filter is nothing more than a function call,
i.e. expr|filter is equivalent to filter(expr).
In addition to filters, there are some basic built-in func-
tions:
o date(date[, fmt])
o fill(text[, width])
o get(dict, key)
o if(expr, then[, else])
o ifeq(expr, expr, then[, else])
o join(list, sep)
o label(label, expr)
o rstdoc(text, style)
o strip(text[, chars])
o sub(pat, repl, expr)
Also, for any expression that returns a list, there is a
list operator:
o expr % "{template}"
Some sample command line templates:
o Format lists, e.g. files:
$ hg log -r 0 --template "files:\n{files % ' {file}\n'}"
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o Join the list of files with a ", ":
$ hg log -r 0 --template "files: {join(files, ', ')}\n"
o Format date:
$ hg log -r 0 --template "{date(date, '%Y')}\n"
o Output the description set to a fill-width of 30:
$ hg log -r 0 --template "{fill(desc, '30')}"
o Use a conditional to test for the default branch:
$ hg log -r 0 --template "{ifeq(branch, 'default', 'on the main branch',
'on branch {branch}')}\n"
o Append a newline if not empty:
$ hg tip --template "{if(author, '{author}\n')}"
o Label the output for use with the color extension:
$ hg log -r 0 --template "{label('changeset.{phase}', node|short)}\n"
o Invert the firstline filter, i.e. everything but the first
line:
$ hg log -r 0 --template "{sub(r'^.*\n?\n?', '', desc)}\n"
URL PATHS
Valid URLs are of the form:
local/filesystem/path[#revision]
file://local/filesystem/path[#revision]
http://[user[:pass]@]host[:port]/[path][#revision]
https://[user[:pass]@]host[:port]/[path][#revision]
ssh://[user@]host[:port]/[path][#revision]
Paths in the local filesystem can either point to Mercurial
repositories or to bundle files (as created by hg bundle or
hg incoming --bundle). See also hg help paths.
An optional identifier after # indicates a particular
branch, tag, or changeset to use from the remote repository.
See also hg help revisions.
Some features, such as pushing to http:// and https:// URLs
are only possible if the feature is explicitly enabled on
the remote Mercurial server.
Note that the security of HTTPS URLs depends on proper
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configuration of web.cacerts.
Some notes about using SSH with Mercurial:
o SSH requires an accessible shell account on the destina-
tion machine and a copy of hg in the remote path or speci-
fied with as remotecmd.
o path is relative to the remote user's home directory by
default. Use an extra slash at the start of a path to
specify an absolute path:
ssh://example.com//tmp/repository
o Mercurial doesn't use its own compression via SSH; the
right thing to do is to configure it in your ~/.ssh/con-
fig, e.g.:
Host *.mylocalnetwork.example.com
Compression no
Host *
Compression yes
Alternatively specify "ssh -C" as your ssh command in your
configuration file or with the --ssh command line option.
These URLs can all be stored in your configuration file with
path aliases under the [paths] section like so:
[paths]
alias1 = URL1
alias2 = URL2
...
You can then use the alias for any command that uses a URL
(for example hg pull alias1 will be treated as hg pull
URL1).
Two path aliases are special because they are used as
defaults when you do not provide the URL to a command:
default:
When you create a repository with hg clone, the clone
command saves the location of the source repository as
the new repository's 'default' path. This is then used
when you omit path from push- and pull-like commands
(including incoming and outgoing).
default-push:
The push command will look for a path named
'default-push', and prefer it over 'default' if both
are defined.
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EXTENSIONS
This section contains help for extensions that are distrib-
uted together with Mercurial. Help for other extensions is
available in the help system.
acl
hooks for controlling repository access
This hook makes it possible to allow or deny write access to
given branches and paths of a repository when receiving
incoming changesets via pretxnchangegroup and pretxncommit.
The authorization is matched based on the local user name on
the system where the hook runs, and not the committer of the
original changeset (since the latter is merely informative).
The acl hook is best used along with a restricted shell like
hgsh, preventing authenticating users from doing anything
other than pushing or pulling. The hook is not safe to use
if users have interactive shell access, as they can then
disable the hook. Nor is it safe if remote users share an
account, because then there is no way to distinguish them.
The order in which access checks are performed is:
1. Deny list for branches (section acl.deny.branches)
2. Allow list for branches (section acl.allow.branches)
3. Deny list for paths (section acl.deny)
4. Allow list for paths (section acl.allow)
The allow and deny sections take key-value pairs.
Branch-based Access Control
Use the acl.deny.branches and acl.allow.branches sections to
have branch-based access control. Keys in these sections can
be either:
o a branch name, or
o an asterisk, to match any branch;
The corresponding values can be either:
o a comma-separated list containing users and groups, or
o an asterisk, to match anyone;
You can add the "!" prefix to a user or group name to invert
the sense of the match.
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Path-based Access Control
Use the acl.deny and acl.allow sections to have path-based
access control. Keys in these sections accept a subtree pat-
tern (with a glob syntax by default). The corresponding val-
ues follow the same syntax as the other sections above.
Groups
Group names must be prefixed with an @ symbol. Specifying a
group name has the same effect as specifying all the users
in that group.
You can define group members in the acl.groups section. If
a group name is not defined there, and Mercurial is running
under a Unix-like system, the list of users will be taken
from the OS. Otherwise, an exception will be raised.
Example Configuration
[hooks]
# Use this if you want to check access restrictions at commit time
pretxncommit.acl = python:hgext.acl.hook
# Use this if you want to check access restrictions for pull, push,
# bundle and serve.
pretxnchangegroup.acl = python:hgext.acl.hook
[acl]
# Allow or deny access for incoming changes only if their source is
# listed here, let them pass otherwise. Source is "serve" for all
# remote access (http or ssh), "push", "pull" or "bundle" when the
# related commands are run locally.
# Default: serve
sources = serve
[acl.deny.branches]
# Everyone is denied to the frozen branch:
frozen-branch = *
# A bad user is denied on all branches:
* = bad-user
[acl.allow.branches]
# A few users are allowed on branch-a:
branch-a = user-1, user-2, user-3
# Only one user is allowed on branch-b:
branch-b = user-1
# The super user is allowed on any branch:
* = super-user
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# Everyone is allowed on branch-for-tests:
branch-for-tests = *
[acl.deny]
# This list is checked first. If a match is found, acl.allow is not
# checked. All users are granted access if acl.deny is not present.
# Format for both lists: glob pattern = user, ..., @group, ...
# To match everyone, use an asterisk for the user:
# my/glob/pattern = *
# user6 will not have write access to any file:
** = user6
# Group "hg-denied" will not have write access to any file:
** = @hg-denied
# Nobody will be able to change "DONT-TOUCH-THIS.txt", despite
# everyone being able to change all other files. See below.
src/main/resources/DONT-TOUCH-THIS.txt = *
[acl.allow]
# if acl.allow is not present, all users are allowed by default
# empty acl.allow = no users allowed
# User "doc_writer" has write access to any file under the "docs"
# folder:
docs/** = doc_writer
# User "jack" and group "designers" have write access to any file
# under the "images" folder:
images/** = jack, @designers
# Everyone (except for "user6" and "@hg-denied" - see acl.deny above)
# will have write access to any file under the "resources" folder
# (except for 1 file. See acl.deny):
src/main/resources/** = *
.hgtags = release_engineer
Examples using the ! prefix
Suppose there's a branch that only a given user (or group)
should be able to push to, and you don't want to restrict
access to any other branch that may be created.
The "!" prefix allows you to prevent anyone except a given
user or group to push changesets in a given branch or path.
In the examples below, we will: 1) Deny access to branch
"ring" to anyone but user "gollum" 2) Deny access to branch
"lake" to anyone but members of the group "hobbit" 3) Deny
access to a file to anyone but user "gollum"
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[acl.allow.branches]
# Empty
[acl.deny.branches]
# 1) only 'gollum' can commit to branch 'ring';
# 'gollum' and anyone else can still commit to any other branch.
ring = !gollum
# 2) only members of the group 'hobbit' can commit to branch 'lake';
# 'hobbit' members and anyone else can still commit to any other branch.
lake = !@hobbit
# You can also deny access based on file paths:
[acl.allow]
# Empty
[acl.deny]
# 3) only 'gollum' can change the file below;
# 'gollum' and anyone else can still change any other file.
/misty/mountains/cave/ring = !gollum
blackbox
log repository events to a blackbox for debugging
Logs event information to .hg/blackbox.log to help debug and
diagnose problems. The events that get logged can be con-
figured via the blackbox.track config key. Examples:
[blackbox]
track = *
[blackbox]
track = command, commandfinish, commandexception, exthook, pythonhook
[blackbox]
track = incoming
[blackbox]
# limit the size of a log file
maxsize = 1.5 MB
# rotate up to N log files when the current one gets too big
maxfiles = 3
Commands
blackbox
hg blackbox [OPTION]...
view the recent repository events
Options:
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-l, --limit
the number of events to show (default: 10)
bugzilla
hooks for integrating with the Bugzilla bug tracker
This hook extension adds comments on bugs in Bugzilla when
changesets that refer to bugs by Bugzilla ID are seen. The
comment is formatted using the Mercurial template mechanism.
The bug references can optionally include an update for
Bugzilla of the hours spent working on the bug. Bugs can
also be marked fixed.
Three basic modes of access to Bugzilla are provided:
1. Access via the Bugzilla XMLRPC interface. Requires
Bugzilla 3.4 or later.
2. Check data via the Bugzilla XMLRPC interface and submit
bug change via email to Bugzilla email interface.
Requires Bugzilla 3.4 or later.
3. Writing directly to the Bugzilla database. Only Bugzilla
installations using MySQL are supported. Requires Python
MySQLdb.
Writing directly to the database is susceptible to schema
changes, and relies on a Bugzilla contrib script to send out
bug change notification emails. This script runs as the user
running Mercurial, must be run on the host with the Bugzilla
install, and requires permission to read Bugzilla configura-
tion details and the necessary MySQL user and password to
have full access rights to the Bugzilla database. For these
reasons this access mode is now considered deprecated, and
will not be updated for new Bugzilla versions going forward.
Only adding comments is supported in this access mode.
Access via XMLRPC needs a Bugzilla username and password to
be specified in the configuration. Comments are added under
that username. Since the configuration must be readable by
all Mercurial users, it is recommended that the rights of
that user are restricted in Bugzilla to the minimum neces-
sary to add comments. Marking bugs fixed requires Bugzilla
4.0 and later.
Access via XMLRPC/email uses XMLRPC to query Bugzilla, but
sends email to the Bugzilla email interface to submit com-
ments to bugs. The From: address in the email is set to the
email address of the Mercurial user, so the comment appears
to come from the Mercurial user. In the event that the Mer-
curial user email is not recognized by Bugzilla as a
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Bugzilla user, the email associated with the Bugzilla user-
name used to log into Bugzilla is used instead as the source
of the comment. Marking bugs fixed works on all supported
Bugzilla versions.
Configuration items common to all access modes:
bugzilla.version
The access type to use. Values recognized are:
xmlrpc
Bugzilla XMLRPC interface.
xmlrpc+email
Bugzilla XMLRPC and email interfaces.
3.0
MySQL access, Bugzilla 3.0 and later.
2.18
MySQL access, Bugzilla 2.18 and up to but not
including 3.0.
2.16
MySQL access, Bugzilla 2.16 and up to but not
including 2.18.
bugzilla.regexp
Regular expression to match bug IDs for update in
changeset commit message. It must contain one "()"
named group <ids> containing the bug IDs separated by
non-digit characters. It may also contain a named group
<hours> with a floating-point number giving the hours
worked on the bug. If no named groups are present, the
first "()" group is assumed to contain the bug IDs, and
work time is not updated. The default expression
matches Bug 1234, Bug no. 1234, Bug number 1234, Bugs
1234,5678, Bug 1234 and 5678 and variations thereof,
followed by an hours number prefixed by h or hours,
e.g. hours 1.5. Matching is case insensitive.
bugzilla.fixregexp
Regular expression to match bug IDs for marking fixed
in changeset commit message. This must contain a "()"
named group <ids>` containing the bug IDs separated by
non-digit characters. It may also contain a named group
``<hours> with a floating-point number giving the hours
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worked on the bug. If no named groups are present, the
first "()" group is assumed to contain the bug IDs, and
work time is not updated. The default expression
matches Fixes 1234, Fixes bug 1234, Fixes bugs
1234,5678, Fixes 1234 and 5678 and variations thereof,
followed by an hours number prefixed by h or hours,
e.g. hours 1.5. Matching is case insensitive.
bugzilla.fixstatus
The status to set a bug to when marking fixed. Default
RESOLVED.
bugzilla.fixresolution
The resolution to set a bug to when marking fixed.
Default FIXED.
bugzilla.style
The style file to use when formatting comments.
bugzilla.template
Template to use when formatting comments. Overrides
style if specified. In addition to the usual Mercurial
keywords, the extension specifies:
{bug}
The Bugzilla bug ID.
{root}
The full pathname of the Mercurial repository.
{webroot}
Stripped pathname of the Mercurial repository.
{hgweb}
Base URL for browsing Mercurial repositories.
Default changeset {node|short} in repo {root} refers to bug
{bug}.\ndetails:\n\t{desc|tabindent}
bugzilla.strip
The number of path separator characters to strip from
the front of the Mercurial repository path ({root} in
templates) to produce {webroot}. For example, a reposi-
tory with {root} /var/local/my-project with a strip of
2 gives a value for {webroot} of my-project. Default 0.
web.baseurl
Base URL for browsing Mercurial repositories.
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Referenced from templates as {hgweb}.
Configuration items common to XMLRPC+email and MySQL access
modes:
bugzilla.usermap
Path of file containing Mercurial committer email to
Bugzilla user email mappings. If specified, the file
should contain one mapping per line:
committer = Bugzilla user
See also the [usermap] section.
The [usermap] section is used to specify mappings of Mercu-
rial committer email to Bugzilla user email. See also
bugzilla.usermap. Contains entries of the form committer =
Bugzilla user.
XMLRPC access mode configuration:
bugzilla.bzurl
The base URL for the Bugzilla installation. Default
http://localhost/bugzilla.
bugzilla.user
The username to use to log into Bugzilla via XMLRPC.
Default bugs.
bugzilla.password
The password for Bugzilla login.
XMLRPC+email access mode uses the XMLRPC access mode config-
uration items, and also:
bugzilla.bzemail
The Bugzilla email address.
In addition, the Mercurial email settings must be config-
ured. See the documentation in hgrc(5), sections [email] and
[smtp].
MySQL access mode configuration:
bugzilla.host
Hostname of the MySQL server holding the Bugzilla data-
base. Default localhost.
bugzilla.db
Name of the Bugzilla database in MySQL. Default bugs.
bugzilla.user
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Username to use to access MySQL server. Default bugs.
bugzilla.password
Password to use to access MySQL server.
bugzilla.timeout
Database connection timeout (seconds). Default 5.
bugzilla.bzuser
Fallback Bugzilla user name to record comments with, if
changeset committer cannot be found as a Bugzilla user.
bugzilla.bzdir
Bugzilla install directory. Used by default notify.
Default /var/www/html/bugzilla.
bugzilla.notify
The command to run to get Bugzilla to send bug change
notification emails. Substitutes from a map with 3
keys, bzdir, id (bug id) and user (committer bugzilla
email). Default depends on version; from 2.18 it is "cd
%(bzdir)s && perl -T contrib/sendbugmail.pl %(id)s
%(user)s".
Activating the extension:
[extensions]
bugzilla =
[hooks]
# run bugzilla hook on every change pulled or pushed in here
incoming.bugzilla = python:hgext.bugzilla.hook
Example configurations:
XMLRPC example configuration. This uses the Bugzilla at
http://my-project.org/bugzilla, logging in as user bug-
[email protected] with password plugh. It is used with a
collection of Mercurial repositories in
/var/local/hg/repos/, with a web interface at
http://my-project.org/hg.
[bugzilla]
bzurl=http://my-project.org/bugzilla
[email protected]
password=plugh
version=xmlrpc
template=Changeset {node|short} in {root|basename}.
{hgweb}/{webroot}/rev/{node|short}\n
{desc}\n
strip=5
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[web]
baseurl=http://my-project.org/hg
XMLRPC+email example configuration. This uses the Bugzilla
at http://my-project.org/bugzilla, logging in as user bug-
[email protected] with password plugh. It is used with a
collection of Mercurial repositories in
/var/local/hg/repos/, with a web interface at
http://my-project.org/hg. Bug comments are sent to the
Bugzilla email address [email protected].
[bugzilla]
bzurl=http://my-project.org/bugzilla
[email protected]
password=plugh
version=xmlrpc
[email protected]
template=Changeset {node|short} in {root|basename}.
{hgweb}/{webroot}/rev/{node|short}\n
{desc}\n
strip=5
[web]
baseurl=http://my-project.org/hg
[usermap]
[email protected][email protected]
MySQL example configuration. This has a local Bugzilla 3.2
installation in /opt/bugzilla-3.2. The MySQL database is on
localhost, the Bugzilla database name is bugs and MySQL is
accessed with MySQL username bugs password XYZZY. It is used
with a collection of Mercurial repositories in
/var/local/hg/repos/, with a web interface at
http://my-project.org/hg.
[bugzilla]
host=localhost
password=XYZZY
version=3.0
[email protected]
bzdir=/opt/bugzilla-3.2
template=Changeset {node|short} in {root|basename}.
{hgweb}/{webroot}/rev/{node|short}\n
{desc}\n
strip=5
[web]
baseurl=http://my-project.org/hg
[usermap]
[email protected][email protected]
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All the above add a comment to the Bugzilla bug record of
the form:
Changeset 3b16791d6642 in repository-name.
http://my-project.org/hg/repository-name/rev/3b16791d6642
Changeset commit comment. Bug 1234.
children
command to display child changesets (DEPRECATED)
This extension is deprecated. You should use hg log -r
"children(REV)" instead.
Commands
children
hg children [-r REV] [FILE]
Print the children of the working directory's revisions. If
a revision is given via -r/--rev, the children of that revi-
sion will be printed. If a file argument is given, revision
in which the file was last changed (after the working direc-
tory revision or the argument to --rev if given) is printed.
Options:
-r, --rev
show children of the specified revision
--style
display using template map file
--template
display with template
churn
command to display statistics about repository history
Commands
churn
hg churn [-d DATE] [-r REV] [--aliases FILE] [FILE]
This command will display a histogram representing the num-
ber of changed lines or revisions, grouped according to the
given template. The default template will group changes by
author. The --dateformat option may be used to group the
results by date instead.
Statistics are based on the number of changed lines, or
alternatively the number of matching revisions if the
--changesets option is specified.
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Examples:
# display count of changed lines for every committer
hg churn -t "{author|email}"
# display daily activity graph
hg churn -f "%H" -s -c
# display activity of developers by month
hg churn -f "%Y-%m" -s -c
# display count of lines changed in every year
hg churn -f "%Y" -s
It is possible to map alternate email addresses to a main
address by providing a file using the following format:
<alias email> = <actual email>
Such a file may be specified with the --aliases option, oth-
erwise a .hgchurn file will be looked for in the working
directory root. Aliases will be split from the rightmost
"=".
Options:
-r, --rev
count rate for the specified revision or range
-d, --date
count rate for revisions matching date spec
-t, --template
template to group changesets (default: {author|email})
-f, --dateformat
strftime-compatible format for grouping by date
-c, --changesets
count rate by number of changesets
-s, --sort
sort by key (default: sort by count)
--diffstat
display added/removed lines separately
--aliases
file with email aliases
-I, --include
include names matching the given patterns
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-X, --exclude
exclude names matching the given patterns
color
colorize output from some commands
This extension modifies the status and resolve commands to
add color to their output to reflect file status, the
qseries command to add color to reflect patch status
(applied, unapplied, missing), and to diff-related commands
to highlight additions, removals, diff headers, and trailing
whitespace.
Other effects in addition to color, like bold and underlined
text, are also available. By default, the terminfo database
is used to find the terminal codes used to change color and
effect. If terminfo is not available, then effects are ren-
dered with the ECMA-48 SGR control function (aka ANSI escape
codes).
Default effects may be overridden from your configuration
file:
[color]
status.modified = blue bold underline red_background
status.added = green bold
status.removed = red bold blue_background
status.deleted = cyan bold underline
status.unknown = magenta bold underline
status.ignored = black bold
# 'none' turns off all effects
status.clean = none
status.copied = none
qseries.applied = blue bold underline
qseries.unapplied = black bold
qseries.missing = red bold
diff.diffline = bold
diff.extended = cyan bold
diff.file_a = red bold
diff.file_b = green bold
diff.hunk = magenta
diff.deleted = red
diff.inserted = green
diff.changed = white
diff.trailingwhitespace = bold red_background
resolve.unresolved = red bold
resolve.resolved = green bold
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bookmarks.current = green
branches.active = none
branches.closed = black bold
branches.current = green
branches.inactive = none
tags.normal = green
tags.local = black bold
rebase.rebased = blue
rebase.remaining = red bold
shelve.age = cyan
shelve.newest = green bold
shelve.name = blue bold
histedit.remaining = red bold
The available effects in terminfo mode are 'blink', 'bold',
'dim', 'inverse', 'invisible', 'italic', 'standout', and
'underline'; in ECMA-48 mode, the options are 'bold',
'inverse', 'italic', and 'underline'. How each is rendered
depends on the terminal emulator. Some may not be available
for a given terminal type, and will be silently ignored.
Note that on some systems, terminfo mode may cause problems
when using color with the pager extension and less -R. less
with the -R option will only display ECMA-48 color codes,
and terminfo mode may sometimes emit codes that less doesn't
understand. You can work around this by either using ansi
mode (or auto mode), or by using less -r (which will pass
through all terminal control codes, not just color control
codes).
Because there are only eight standard colors, this module
allows you to define color names for other color slots which
might be available for your terminal type, assuming terminfo
mode. For instance:
color.brightblue = 12
color.pink = 207
color.orange = 202
to set 'brightblue' to color slot 12 (useful for 16 color
terminals that have brighter colors defined in the upper
eight) and, 'pink' and 'orange' to colors in 256-color
xterm's default color cube. These defined colors may then
be used as any of the pre-defined eight, including appending
'_background' to set the background to that color.
By default, the color extension will use ANSI mode (or win32
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mode on Windows) if it detects a terminal. To override auto
mode (to enable terminfo mode, for example), set the follow-
ing configuration option:
[color]
mode = terminfo
Any value other than 'ansi', 'win32', 'terminfo', or 'auto'
will disable color.
convert
import revisions from foreign VCS repositories into Mercu-
rial
Commands
convert
hg convert [OPTION]... SOURCE [DEST [REVMAP]]
Accepted source formats [identifiers]:
o Mercurial [hg]
o CVS [cvs]
o Darcs [darcs]
o git [git]
o Subversion [svn]
o Monotone [mtn]
o GNU Arch [gnuarch]
o Bazaar [bzr]
o Perforce [p4]
Accepted destination formats [identifiers]:
o Mercurial [hg]
o Subversion [svn] (history on branches is not preserved)
If no revision is given, all revisions will be converted.
Otherwise, convert will only import up to the named revision
(given in a format understood by the source).
If no destination directory name is specified, it defaults
to the basename of the source with -hg appended. If the des-
tination repository doesn't exist, it will be created.
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By default, all sources except Mercurial will use --branch-
sort. Mercurial uses --sourcesort to preserve original
revision numbers order. Sort modes have the following
effects:
--branchsort
convert from parent to child revision when possible,
which means branches are usually converted one after
the other. It generates more compact repositories.
--datesort
sort revisions by date. Converted repositories have
good-looking changelogs but are often an order of mag-
nitude larger than the same ones generated by --branch-
sort.
--sourcesort
try to preserve source revisions order, only supported
by Mercurial sources.
--closesort
try to move closed revisions as close as possible to
parent branches, only supported by Mercurial sources.
If REVMAP isn't given, it will be put in a default location
(<dest>/.hg/shamap by default). The REVMAP is a simple text
file that maps each source commit ID to the destination ID
for that revision, like so:
<source ID> <destination ID>
If the file doesn't exist, it's automatically created. It's
updated on each commit copied, so hg convert can be inter-
rupted and can be run repeatedly to copy new commits.
The authormap is a simple text file that maps each source
commit author to a destination commit author. It is handy
for source SCMs that use unix logins to identify authors
(e.g.: CVS). One line per author mapping and the line format
is:
source author = destination author
Empty lines and lines starting with a # are ignored.
The filemap is a file that allows filtering and remapping of
files and directories. Each line can contain one of the fol-
lowing directives:
include path/to/file-or-dir
exclude path/to/file-or-dir
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rename path/to/source path/to/destination
Comment lines start with #. A specified path matches if it
equals the full relative name of a file or one of its parent
directories. The include or exclude directive with the long-
est matching path applies, so line order does not matter.
The include directive causes a file, or all files under a
directory, to be included in the destination repository, and
the exclusion of all other files and directories not explic-
itly included. The exclude directive causes files or direc-
tories to be omitted. The rename directive renames a file or
directory if it is converted. To rename from a subdirectory
into the root of the repository, use . as the path to rename
to.
The splicemap is a file that allows insertion of synthetic
history, letting you specify the parents of a revision. This
is useful if you want to e.g. give a Subversion merge two
parents, or graft two disconnected series of history
together. Each entry contains a key, followed by a space,
followed by one or two comma-separated values:
key parent1, parent2
The key is the revision ID in the source revision control
system whose parents should be modified (same format as a
key in .hg/shamap). The values are the revision IDs (in
either the source or destination revision control system)
that should be used as the new parents for that node. For
example, if you have merged "release-1.0" into "trunk", then
you should specify the revision on "trunk" as the first par-
ent and the one on the "release-1.0" branch as the second.
The branchmap is a file that allows you to rename a branch
when it is being brought in from whatever external reposi-
tory. When used in conjunction with a splicemap, it allows
for a powerful combination to help fix even the most badly
mismanaged repositories and turn them into nicely structured
Mercurial repositories. The branchmap contains lines of the
form:
original_branch_name new_branch_name
where "original_branch_name" is the name of the branch in
the source repository, and "new_branch_name" is the name of
the branch is the destination repository. No whitespace is
allowed in the branch names. This can be used to (for
instance) move code in one repository from "default" to a
named branch.
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Mercurial Source
The Mercurial source recognizes the following configuration
options, which you can set on the command line with --con-
fig:
convert.hg.ignoreerrors
ignore integrity errors when reading. Use it to fix
Mercurial repositories with missing revlogs, by con-
verting from and to Mercurial. Default is False.
convert.hg.saverev
store original revision ID in changeset (forces target
IDs to change). It takes a boolean argument and
defaults to False.
convert.hg.revs
revset specifying the source revisions to convert.
CVS Source
CVS source will use a sandbox (i.e. a checked-out copy) from
CVS to indicate the starting point of what will be con-
verted. Direct access to the repository files is not needed,
unless of course the repository is :local:. The conversion
uses the top level directory in the sandbox to find the CVS
repository, and then uses CVS rlog commands to find files to
convert. This means that unless a filemap is given, all
files under the starting directory will be converted, and
that any directory reorganization in the CVS sandbox is
ignored.
The following options can be used with --config:
convert.cvsps.cache
Set to False to disable remote log caching, for testing
and debugging purposes. Default is True.
convert.cvsps.fuzz
Specify the maximum time (in seconds) that is allowed
between commits with identical user and log message in
a single changeset. When very large files were checked
in as part of a changeset then the default may not be
long enough. The default is 60.
convert.cvsps.mergeto
Specify a regular expression to which commit log mes-
sages are matched. If a match occurs, then the conver-
sion process will insert a dummy revision merging the
branch on which this log message occurs to the branch
indicated in the regex. Default is {{mergetobranch
([-\w]+)}}
convert.cvsps.mergefrom
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Specify a regular expression to which commit log mes-
sages are matched. If a match occurs, then the conver-
sion process will add the most recent revision on the
branch indicated in the regex as the second parent of
the changeset. Default is {{mergefrombranch ([-\w]+)}}
convert.localtimezone
use local time (as determined by the TZ environment
variable) for changeset date/times. The default is
False (use UTC).
hooks.cvslog
Specify a Python function to be called at the end of
gathering the CVS log. The function is passed a list
with the log entries, and can modify the entries
in-place, or add or delete them.
hooks.cvschangesets
Specify a Python function to be called after the
changesets are calculated from the CVS log. The func-
tion is passed a list with the changeset entries, and
can modify the changesets in-place, or add or delete
them.
An additional "debugcvsps" Mercurial command allows the
builtin changeset merging code to be run without doing a
conversion. Its parameters and output are similar to that of
cvsps 2.1. Please see the command help for more details.
Subversion Source
Subversion source detects classical trunk/branches/tags lay-
outs. By default, the supplied svn://repo/path/ source URL
is converted as a single branch. If svn://repo/path/trunk
exists it replaces the default branch. If
svn://repo/path/branches exists, its subdirectories are
listed as possible branches. If svn://repo/path/tags exists,
it is looked for tags referencing converted branches.
Default trunk, branches and tags values can be overridden
with following options. Set them to paths relative to the
source URL, or leave them blank to disable auto detection.
The following options can be set with --config:
convert.svn.branches
specify the directory containing branches. The default
is branches.
convert.svn.tags
specify the directory containing tags. The default is
tags.
convert.svn.trunk
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specify the name of the trunk branch. The default is
trunk.
convert.localtimezone
use local time (as determined by the TZ environment
variable) for changeset date/times. The default is
False (use UTC).
Source history can be retrieved starting at a specific revi-
sion, instead of being integrally converted. Only single
branch conversions are supported.
convert.svn.startrev
specify start Subversion revision number. The default
is 0.
Perforce Source
The Perforce (P4) importer can be given a p4 depot path or a
client specification as source. It will convert all files in
the source to a flat Mercurial repository, ignoring labels,
branches and integrations. Note that when a depot path is
given you then usually should specify a target directory,
because otherwise the target may be named ...-hg.
It is possible to limit the amount of source history to be
converted by specifying an initial Perforce revision:
convert.p4.startrev
specify initial Perforce revision (a Perforce change-
list number).
Mercurial Destination
The following options are supported:
convert.hg.clonebranches
dispatch source branches in separate clones. The
default is False.
convert.hg.tagsbranch
branch name for tag revisions, defaults to default.
convert.hg.usebranchnames
preserve branch names. The default is True.
Options:
--authors
username mapping filename (DEPRECATED, use --authormap
instead)
-s, --source-type
source repository type
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-d, --dest-type
destination repository type
-r, --rev
import up to source revision REV
-A, --authormap
remap usernames using this file
--filemap
remap file names using contents of file
--splicemap
splice synthesized history into place
--branchmap
change branch names while converting
--branchsort
try to sort changesets by branches
--datesort
try to sort changesets by date
--sourcesort
preserve source changesets order
--closesort
try to reorder closed revisions
eol
automatically manage newlines in repository files
This extension allows you to manage the type of line endings
(CRLF or LF) that are used in the repository and in the
local working directory. That way you can get CRLF line end-
ings on Windows and LF on Unix/Mac, thereby letting every-
body use their OS native line endings.
The extension reads its configuration from a versioned
.hgeol configuration file found in the root of the working
copy. The .hgeol file use the same syntax as all other Mer-
curial configuration files. It uses two sections, [patterns]
and [repository].
The [patterns] section specifies how line endings should be
converted between the working copy and the repository. The
format is specified by a file pattern. The first match is
used, so put more specific patterns first. The available
line endings are LF, CRLF, and BIN.
Files with the declared format of CRLF or LF are always
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checked out and stored in the repository in that format and
files declared to be binary (BIN) are left unchanged. Addi-
tionally, native is an alias for checking out in the plat-
form's default line ending: LF on Unix (including Mac OS X)
and CRLF on Windows. Note that BIN (do nothing to line end-
ings) is Mercurial's default behaviour; it is only needed if
you need to override a later, more general pattern.
The optional [repository] section specifies the line endings
to use for files stored in the repository. It has a single
setting, native, which determines the storage line endings
for files declared as native in the [patterns] section. It
can be set to LF or CRLF. The default is LF. For example,
this means that on Windows, files configured as native (CRLF
by default) will be converted to LF when stored in the
repository. Files declared as LF, CRLF, or BIN in the [pat-
terns] section are always stored as-is in the repository.
Example versioned .hgeol file:
[patterns]
**.py = native
**.vcproj = CRLF
**.txt = native
Makefile = LF
**.jpg = BIN
[repository]
native = LF
Note The rules will first apply when files are touched in
the working copy, e.g. by updating to null and back to
tip to touch all files.
The extension uses an optional [eol] section read from both
the normal Mercurial configuration files and the .hgeol
file, with the latter overriding the former. You can use
that section to control the overall behavior. There are
three settings:
o eol.native (default os.linesep) can be set to LF or CRLF
to override the default interpretation of native for
checkout. This can be used with hg archive on Unix, say,
to generate an archive where files have line endings for
Windows.
o eol.only-consistent (default True) can be set to False to
make the extension convert files with inconsistent EOLs.
Inconsistent means that there is both CRLF and LF present
in the file. Such files are normally not touched under
the assumption that they have mixed EOLs on purpose.
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o eol.fix-trailing-newline (default False) can be set to
True to ensure that converted files end with a EOL charac-
ter (either \n or \r\n as per the configured patterns).
The extension provides cleverencode: and cleverdecode: fil-
ters like the deprecated win32text extension does. This
means that you can disable win32text and enable eol and your
filters will still work. You only need to these filters
until you have prepared a .hgeol file.
The win32text.forbid* hooks provided by the win32text exten-
sion have been unified into a single hook named eol.check-
headshook. The hook will lookup the expected line endings
from the .hgeol file, which means you must migrate to a
.hgeol file first before using the hook. eol.checkheadshook
only checks heads, intermediate invalid revisions will be
pushed. To forbid them completely, use the eol.checkallhook
hook. These hooks are best used as pretxnchangegroup hooks.
See hg help patterns for more information about the glob
patterns used.
extdiff
command to allow external programs to compare revisions
The extdiff Mercurial extension allows you to use external
programs to compare revisions, or revision with working
directory. The external diff programs are called with a con-
figurable set of options and two non-option arguments: paths
to directories containing snapshots of files to compare.
The extdiff extension also allows you to configure new diff
commands, so you do not need to type hg extdiff -p kdiff3
always.
[extdiff]
# add new command that runs GNU diff(1) in 'context diff' mode
cdiff = gdiff -Nprc5
## or the old way:
#cmd.cdiff = gdiff
#opts.cdiff = -Nprc5
# add new command called vdiff, runs kdiff3
vdiff = kdiff3
# add new command called meld, runs meld (no need to name twice)
meld =
# add new command called vimdiff, runs gvimdiff with DirDiff plugin
# (see http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=102) Non
# English user, be sure to put "let g:DirDiffDynamicDiffText = 1" in
# your .vimrc
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vimdiff = gvim -f "+next" \
"+execute 'DirDiff' fnameescape(argv(0)) fnameescape(argv(1))"
Tool arguments can include variables that are expanded at
runtime:
$parent1, $plabel1 - filename, descriptive label of first parent
$child, $clabel - filename, descriptive label of child revision
$parent2, $plabel2 - filename, descriptive label of second parent
$root - repository root
$parent is an alias for $parent1.
The extdiff extension will look in your [diff-tools] and
[merge-tools] sections for diff tool arguments, when none
are specified in [extdiff].
[extdiff]
kdiff3 =
[diff-tools]
kdiff3.diffargs=--L1 '$plabel1' --L2 '$clabel' $parent $child
You can use -I/-X and list of file or directory names like
normal hg diff command. The extdiff extension makes snap-
shots of only needed files, so running the external diff
program will actually be pretty fast (at least faster than
having to compare the entire tree).
Commands
extdiff
hg extdiff [OPT]... [FILE]...
Show differences between revisions for the specified files,
using an external program. The default program used is diff,
with default options "-Npru".
To select a different program, use the -p/--program option.
The program will be passed the names of two directories to
compare. To pass additional options to the program, use
-o/--option. These will be passed before the names of the
directories to compare.
When two revision arguments are given, then changes are
shown between those revisions. If only one revision is spec-
ified then that revision is compared to the working direc-
tory, and, when no revisions are specified, the working
directory files are compared to its parent.
Options:
-p, --program
comparison program to run
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-o, --option
pass option to comparison program
-r, --rev
revision
-c, --change
change made by revision
-I, --include
include names matching the given patterns
-X, --exclude
exclude names matching the given patterns
factotum
http authentication with factotum
This extension allows the factotum(4) facility on Plan 9
from Bell Labs platforms to provide authentication informa-
tion for HTTP access. Configuration entries specified in the
auth section as well as authentication information provided
in the repository URL are fully supported. If no prefix is
specified, a value of "*" will be assumed.
By default, keys are specified as:
proto=pass service=hg prefix=<prefix> user=<username> !password=<password>
If the factotum extension is unable to read the required
key, one will be requested interactively.
A configuration section is available to customize runtime
behavior. By default, these entries are:
[factotum]
executable = /bin/auth/factotum
mountpoint = /mnt/factotum
service = hg
The executable entry defines the full path to the factotum
binary. The mountpoint entry defines the path to the facto-
tum file service. Lastly, the service entry controls the
service name used when reading keys.
fetch
pull, update and merge in one command (DEPRECATED)
Commands
fetch
hg fetch [SOURCE]
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This finds all changes from the repository at the specified
path or URL and adds them to the local repository.
If the pulled changes add a new branch head, the head is
automatically merged, and the result of the merge is commit-
ted. Otherwise, the working directory is updated to include
the new changes.
When a merge is needed, the working directory is first
updated to the newly pulled changes. Local changes are then
merged into the pulled changes. To switch the merge order,
use --switch-parent.
See hg help dates for a list of formats valid for -d/--date.
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
-r, --rev
a specific revision you would like to pull
-e, --edit
edit commit message
--force-editor
edit commit message (DEPRECATED)
--switch-parent
switch parents when merging
-m, --message
use text as commit message
-l, --logfile
read commit message from file
-d, --date
record the specified date as commit date
-u, --user
record the specified user as committer
-e, --ssh
specify ssh command to use
--remotecmd
specify hg command to run on the remote side
--insecure
do not verify server certificate (ignoring web.cacerts
config)
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gpg
commands to sign and verify changesets
Commands
sigcheck
hg sigcheck REV
verify all the signatures there may be for a particular
revision
sign
hg sign [OPTION]... [REV]...
If no revision is given, the parent of the working directory
is used, or tip if no revision is checked out.
See hg help dates for a list of formats valid for -d/--date.
Options:
-l, --local
make the signature local
-f, --force
sign even if the sigfile is modified
--no-commit
do not commit the sigfile after signing
-k, --key
the key id to sign with
-m, --message
commit message
-d, --date
record the specified date as commit date
-u, --user
record the specified user as committer
sigs
hg sigs
list signed changesets
graphlog
command to view revision graphs from a shell
This extension adds a --graph option to the incoming, outgo-
ing and log commands. When this options is given, an ASCII
representation of the revision graph is also shown.
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Commands
glog
hg glog [OPTION]... [FILE]
Print a revision history alongside a revision graph drawn
with ASCII characters.
Nodes printed as an @ character are parents of the working
directory.
Options:
-f, --follow
follow changeset history, or file history across copies
and renames
--follow-first
only follow the first parent of merge changesets (DEP-
RECATED)
-d, --date
show revisions matching date spec
-C, --copies
show copied files
-k, --keyword
do case-insensitive search for a given text
-r, --rev
show the specified revision or range
--removed
include revisions where files were removed
-m, --only-merges
show only merges (DEPRECATED)
-u, --user
revisions committed by user
--only-branch
show only changesets within the given named branch
(DEPRECATED)
-b, --branch
show changesets within the given named branch
-P, --prune
do not display revision or any of its ancestors
-p, --patch
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show patch
-g, --git
use git extended diff format
-l, --limit
limit number of changes displayed
-M, --no-merges
do not show merges
--stat
output diffstat-style summary of changes
-G, --graph
show the revision DAG
--style
display using template map file
--template
display with template
-I, --include
include names matching the given patterns
-X, --exclude
exclude names matching the given patterns
hgcia
hooks for integrating with the CIA.vc notification service
This is meant to be run as a changegroup or incoming hook.
To configure it, set the following options in your hgrc:
[cia]
# your registered CIA user name
user = foo
# the name of the project in CIA
project = foo
# the module (subproject) (optional)
#module = foo
# Append a diffstat to the log message (optional)
#diffstat = False
# Template to use for log messages (optional)
#template = {desc}\n{baseurl}{webroot}/rev/{node}-- {diffstat}
# Style to use (optional)
#style = foo
# The URL of the CIA notification service (optional)
# You can use mailto: URLs to send by email, e.g.
# mailto:[email protected]
# Make sure to set email.from if you do this.
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#url = http://cia.vc/
# print message instead of sending it (optional)
#test = False
# number of slashes to strip for url paths
#strip = 0
[hooks]
# one of these:
changegroup.cia = python:hgcia.hook
#incoming.cia = python:hgcia.hook
[web]
# If you want hyperlinks (optional)
baseurl = http://server/path/to/repo
hgk
browse the repository in a graphical way
The hgk extension allows browsing the history of a reposi-
tory in a graphical way. It requires Tcl/Tk version 8.4 or
later. (Tcl/Tk is not distributed with Mercurial.)
hgk consists of two parts: a Tcl script that does the dis-
playing and querying of information, and an extension to
Mercurial named hgk.py, which provides hooks for hgk to get
information.
The hg view command will launch the hgk Tcl script. The
script is shipped in /usr/demo/mercurial, and hgk needs no
configuration to find it. You can specify the path to an
alternate hgk in your configuration file:
[hgk]
path=/location/of/hgk
hgk can make use of the extdiff extension to visualize revi-
sions. Assuming you had already configured extdiff vdiff
command, just add:
[hgk]
vdiff=vdiff
Revisions context menu will now display additional entries
to fire vdiff on hovered and selected revisions.
Commands
view
hg view [-l LIMIT] [REVRANGE]
start interactive history viewer
Options:
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-l, --limit
limit number of changes displayed
highlight
syntax highlighting for hgweb (requires Pygments)
It depends on the Pygments syntax highlighting library:
http://pygments.org/
There is a single configuration option:
[web]
pygments_style = <style>
The default is 'colorful'.
histedit
interactive history editing
With this extension installed, Mercurial gains one new com-
mand: histedit. Usage is as follows, assuming the following
history:
@ 3[tip] 7c2fd3b9020c 2009-04-27 18:04 -0500 durin42
| Add delta
|
o 2 030b686bedc4 2009-04-27 18:04 -0500 durin42
| Add gamma
|
o 1 c561b4e977df 2009-04-27 18:04 -0500 durin42
| Add beta
|
o 0 d8d2fcd0e319 2009-04-27 18:04 -0500 durin42
Add alpha
If you were to run hg histedit c561b4e977df, you would see
the following file open in your editor:
pick c561b4e977df Add beta
pick 030b686bedc4 Add gamma
pick 7c2fd3b9020c Add delta
# Edit history between c561b4e977df and 7c2fd3b9020c
#
# Commands:
# p, pick = use commit
# e, edit = use commit, but stop for amending
# f, fold = use commit, but fold into previous commit (combines N and N-1)
# d, drop = remove commit from history
# m, mess = edit message without changing commit content
#
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In this file, lines beginning with # are ignored. You must
specify a rule for each revision in your history. For exam-
ple, if you had meant to add gamma before beta, and then
wanted to add delta in the same revision as beta, you would
reorganize the file to look like this:
pick 030b686bedc4 Add gamma
pick c561b4e977df Add beta
fold 7c2fd3b9020c Add delta
# Edit history between c561b4e977df and 7c2fd3b9020c
#
# Commands:
# p, pick = use commit
# e, edit = use commit, but stop for amending
# f, fold = use commit, but fold into previous commit (combines N and N-1)
# d, drop = remove commit from history
# m, mess = edit message without changing commit content
#
At which point you close the editor and histedit starts
working. When you specify a fold operation, histedit will
open an editor when it folds those revisions together,
offering you a chance to clean up the commit message:
Add beta
***
Add delta
Edit the commit message to your liking, then close the edi-
tor. For this example, let's assume that the commit message
was changed to Add beta and delta. After histedit has run
and had a chance to remove any old or temporary revisions it
needed, the history looks like this:
@ 2[tip] 989b4d060121 2009-04-27 18:04 -0500 durin42
| Add beta and delta.
|
o 1 081603921c3f 2009-04-27 18:04 -0500 durin42
| Add gamma
|
o 0 d8d2fcd0e319 2009-04-27 18:04 -0500 durin42
Add alpha
Note that histedit does not remove any revisions (even its
own temporary ones) until after it has completed all the
editing operations, so it will probably perform several
strip operations when it's done. For the above example, it
had to run strip twice. Strip can be slow depending on a
variety of factors, so you might need to be a little
patient. You can choose to keep the original revisions by
passing the --keep flag.
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The edit operation will drop you back to a command prompt,
allowing you to edit files freely, or even use hg record to
commit some changes as a separate commit. When you're done,
any remaining uncommitted changes will be committed as well.
When done, run hg histedit --continue to finish this step.
You'll be prompted for a new commit message, but the default
commit message will be the original message for the edit ed
revision.
The message operation will give you a chance to revise a
commit message without changing the contents. It's a short-
cut for doing edit immediately followed by hg histedit
--continue`.
If histedit encounters a conflict when moving a revision
(while handling pick or fold), it'll stop in a similar man-
ner to edit with the difference that it won't prompt you for
a commit message when done. If you decide at this point that
you don't like how much work it will be to rearrange his-
tory, or that you made a mistake, you can use hg histedit
--abort to abandon the new changes you have made and return
to the state before you attempted to edit your history.
If we clone the histedit-ed example repository above and add
four more changes, such that we have the following history:
@ 6[tip] 038383181893 2009-04-27 18:04 -0500 stefan
| Add theta
|
o 5 140988835471 2009-04-27 18:04 -0500 stefan
| Add eta
|
o 4 122930637314 2009-04-27 18:04 -0500 stefan
| Add zeta
|
o 3 836302820282 2009-04-27 18:04 -0500 stefan
| Add epsilon
|
o 2 989b4d060121 2009-04-27 18:04 -0500 durin42
| Add beta and delta.
|
o 1 081603921c3f 2009-04-27 18:04 -0500 durin42
| Add gamma
|
o 0 d8d2fcd0e319 2009-04-27 18:04 -0500 durin42
Add alpha
If you run hg histedit --outgoing on the clone then it is
the same as running hg histedit 836302820282. If you need
plan to push to a repository that Mercurial does not detect
to be related to the source repo, you can add a --force
option.
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Commands
histedit
hg histedit ANCESTOR | --outgoing [URL]
This command edits changesets between ANCESTOR and the par-
ent of the working directory.
With --outgoing, this edits changesets not found in the des-
tination repository. If URL of the destination is omitted,
the 'default-push' (or 'default') path will be used.
For safety, this command is aborted, also if there are
ambiguous outgoing revisions which may confuse users: for
example, there are multiple branches containing outgoing
revisions.
Use "min(outgoing() and ::.)" or similar revset specifica-
tion instead of --outgoing to specify edit target revision
exactly in such ambiguous situation. See hg help revsets for
detail about selecting revisions.
Returns 0 on success, 1 if user intervention is required
(not only for intentional "edit" command, but also for
resolving unexpected conflicts).
Options:
--commands
Read history edits from the specified file.
-c, --continue
continue an edit already in progress
-k, --keep
don't strip old nodes after edit is complete
--abort
abort an edit in progress
-o, --outgoing
changesets not found in destination
-f, --force
force outgoing even for unrelated repositories
-r, --rev
first revision to be edited
inotify
accelerate status report using Linux's inotify service
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Commands
inserve
hg inserve [OPTION]...
start an inotify server for this repository
Options:
-d, --daemon
run server in background
--daemon-pipefds
used internally by daemon mode
-t, --idle-timeout
minutes to sit idle before exiting
--pid-file
name of file to write process ID to
interhg
None
keyword
expand keywords in tracked files
This extension expands RCS/CVS-like or self-customized $Key-
words$ in tracked text files selected by your configuration.
Keywords are only expanded in local repositories and not
stored in the change history. The mechanism can be regarded
as a convenience for the current user or for archive distri-
bution.
Keywords expand to the changeset data pertaining to the lat-
est change relative to the working directory parent of each
file.
Configuration is done in the [keyword], [keywordset] and
[keywordmaps] sections of hgrc files.
Example:
[keyword]
# expand keywords in every python file except those matching "x*"
**.py =
x* = ignore
[keywordset]
# prefer svn- over cvs-like default keywordmaps
svn = True
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Note The more specific you are in your filename patterns the
less you lose speed in huge repositories.
For [keywordmaps] template mapping and expansion demonstra-
tion and control run hg kwdemo. See hg help templates for a
list of available templates and filters.
Three additional date template filters are provided:
utcdate
"2006/09/18 15:13:13"
svnutcdate
"2006-09-18 15:13:13Z"
svnisodate
"2006-09-18 08:13:13 -700 (Mon, 18 Sep 2006)"
The default template mappings (view with hg kwdemo -d) can
be replaced with customized keywords and templates. Again,
run hg kwdemo to control the results of your configuration
changes.
Before changing/disabling active keywords, you must run hg
kwshrink to avoid storing expanded keywords in the change
history.
To force expansion after enabling it, or a configuration
change, run hg kwexpand.
Expansions spanning more than one line and incremental
expansions, like CVS' $Log$, are not supported. A keyword
template map "Log = {desc}" expands to the first line of the
changeset description.
Commands
kwdemo
hg kwdemo [-d] [-f RCFILE] [TEMPLATEMAP]...
Show current, custom, or default keyword template maps and
their expansions.
Extend the current configuration by specifying maps as argu-
ments and using -f/--rcfile to source an external hgrc file.
Use -d/--default to disable current configuration.
See hg help templates for information on templates and fil-
ters.
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Options:
-d, --default
show default keyword template maps
-f, --rcfile
read maps from rcfile
kwexpand
hg kwexpand [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Run after (re)enabling keyword expansion.
kwexpand refuses to run if given files contain local
changes.
Options:
-I, --include
include names matching the given patterns
-X, --exclude
exclude names matching the given patterns
kwfiles
hg kwfiles [OPTION]... [FILE]...
List which files in the working directory are matched by the
[keyword] configuration patterns.
Useful to prevent inadvertent keyword expansion and to speed
up execution by including only files that are actual candi-
dates for expansion.
See hg help keyword on how to construct patterns both for
inclusion and exclusion of files.
With -A/--all and -v/--verbose the codes used to show the
status of files are:
K = keyword expansion candidate
k = keyword expansion candidate (not tracked)
I = ignored
i = ignored (not tracked)
Options:
-A, --all
show keyword status flags of all files
-i, --ignore
show files excluded from expansion
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-u, --unknown
only show unknown (not tracked) files
-I, --include
include names matching the given patterns
-X, --exclude
exclude names matching the given patterns
kwshrink
hg kwshrink [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Must be run before changing/disabling active keywords.
kwshrink refuses to run if given files contain local
changes.
Options:
-I, --include
include names matching the given patterns
-X, --exclude
exclude names matching the given patterns
largefiles
track large binary files
Large binary files tend to be not very compressible, not
very diffable, and not at all mergeable. Such files are not
handled efficiently by Mercurial's storage format (revlog),
which is based on compressed binary deltas; storing large
binary files as regular Mercurial files wastes bandwidth and
disk space and increases Mercurial's memory usage. The
largefiles extension addresses these problems by adding a
centralized client-server layer on top of Mercurial: large-
files live in a central store out on the network somewhere,
and you only fetch the revisions that you need when you need
them.
largefiles works by maintaining a "standin file" in .hglf/
for each largefile. The standins are small (41 bytes: an
SHA-1 hash plus newline) and are tracked by Mercurial.
Largefile revisions are identified by the SHA-1 hash of
their contents, which is written to the standin. largefiles
uses that revision ID to get/put largefile revisions from/to
the central store. This saves both disk space and bandwidth,
since you don't need to retrieve all historical revisions of
large files when you clone or pull.
To start a new repository or add new large binary files,
just add --large to your hg add command. For example:
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$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=randomdata count=2000
$ hg add --large randomdata
$ hg commit -m 'add randomdata as a largefile'
When you push a changeset that adds/modifies largefiles to a
remote repository, its largefile revisions will be uploaded
along with it. Note that the remote Mercurial must also
have the largefiles extension enabled for this to work.
When you pull a changeset that affects largefiles from a
remote repository, the largefiles for the changeset will by
default not be pulled down. However, when you update to such
a revision, any largefiles needed by that revision are down-
loaded and cached (if they have never been downloaded
before). One way to pull largefiles when pulling is thus to
use --update, which will update your working copy to the
latest pulled revision (and thereby downloading any new
largefiles).
If you want to pull largefiles you don't need for update
yet, then you can use pull with the --lfrev option or the hg
lfpull command.
If you know you are pulling from a non-default location and
want to download all the largefiles that correspond to the
new changesets at the same time, then you can pull with
--lfrev "pulled()".
If you just want to ensure that you will have the largefiles
needed to merge or rebase with new heads that you are
pulling, then you can pull with --lfrev "head(pulled())"
flag to pre-emptively download any largefiles that are new
in the heads you are pulling.
Keep in mind that network access may now be required to
update to changesets that you have not previously updated
to. The nature of the largefiles extension means that updat-
ing is no longer guaranteed to be a local-only operation.
If you already have large files tracked by Mercurial without
the largefiles extension, you will need to convert your
repository in order to benefit from largefiles. This is done
with the hg lfconvert command:
$ hg lfconvert --size 10 oldrepo newrepo
In repositories that already have largefiles in them, any
new file over 10MB will automatically be added as a large-
file. To change this threshold, set largefiles.minsize in
your Mercurial config file to the minimum size in megabytes
to track as a largefile, or use the --lfsize option to the
add command (also in megabytes):
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[largefiles]
minsize = 2
$ hg add --lfsize 2
The largefiles.patterns config option allows you to specify
a list of filename patterns (see hg help patterns) that
should always be tracked as largefiles:
[largefiles]
patterns =
*.jpg
re:.*\.(png|bmp)$
library.zip
content/audio/*
Files that match one of these patterns will be added as
largefiles regardless of their size.
The largefiles.minsize and largefiles.patterns config
options will be ignored for any repositories not already
containing a largefile. To add the first largefile to a
repository, you must explicitly do so with the --large flag
passed to the hg add command.
Commands
lfconvert
hg lfconvert SOURCE DEST [FILE ...]
Convert repository SOURCE to a new repository DEST, identi-
cal to SOURCE except that certain files will be converted as
largefiles: specifically, any file that matches any PATTERN
or whose size is above the minimum size threshold is con-
verted as a largefile. The size used to determine whether or
not to track a file as a largefile is the size of the first
version of the file. The minimum size can be specified
either with --size or in configuration as largefiles.size.
After running this command you will need to make sure that
largefiles is enabled anywhere you intend to push the new
repository.
Use --to-normal to convert largefiles back to normal files;
after this, the DEST repository can be used without large-
files at all.
Options:
-s, --size
minimum size (MB) for files to be converted as large-
files
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--to-normal
convert from a largefiles repo to a normal repo
lfpull
hg lfpull -r REV... [-e CMD] [--remotecmd CMD] [SOURCE]
Pull largefiles that are referenced from local changesets
but missing locally, pulling from a remote repository to the
local cache.
If SOURCE is omitted, the 'default' path will be used. See
hg help urls for more information.
Some examples:
o pull largefiles for all branch heads:
hg lfpull -r "head() and not closed()"
o pull largefiles on the default branch:
hg lfpull -r "branch(default)"
Options:
-r, --rev
pull largefiles for these revisions
-e, --ssh
specify ssh command to use
--remotecmd
specify hg command to run on the remote side
--insecure
do not verify server certificate (ignoring web.cacerts
config)
mq
manage a stack of patches
This extension lets you work with a stack of patches in a
Mercurial repository. It manages two stacks of patches - all
known patches, and applied patches (subset of known
patches).
Known patches are represented as patch files in the
.hg/patches directory. Applied patches are both patch files
and changesets.
Common tasks (use hg help command for more details):
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create new patch qnew
import existing patch qimport
print patch series qseries
print applied patches qapplied
add known patch to applied stack qpush
remove patch from applied stack qpop
refresh contents of top applied patch qrefresh
By default, mq will automatically use git patches when
required to avoid losing file mode changes, copy records,
binary files or empty files creations or deletions. This be-
haviour can be configured with:
[mq]
git = auto/keep/yes/no
If set to 'keep', mq will obey the [diff] section configura-
tion while preserving existing git patches upon qrefresh. If
set to 'yes' or 'no', mq will override the [diff] section
and always generate git or regular patches, possibly losing
data in the second case.
It may be desirable for mq changesets to be kept in the
secret phase (see hg help phases), which can be enabled with
the following setting:
[mq]
secret = True
You will by default be managing a patch queue named
"patches". You can create other, independent patch queues
with the hg qqueue command.
If the working directory contains uncommitted files, qpush,
qpop and qgoto abort immediately. If -f/--force is used, the
changes are discarded. Setting:
[mq]
keepchanges = True
make them behave as if --keep-changes were passed, and
non-conflicting local changes will be tolerated and pre-
served. If incompatible options such as -f/--force or
--exact are passed, this setting is ignored.
This extension used to provide a strip command. This command
now lives in the strip extension.
Commands
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qapplied
hg qapplied [-1] [-s] [PATCH]
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
-1, --last
show only the preceding applied patch
-s, --summary
print first line of patch header
qclone
hg qclone [OPTION]... SOURCE [DEST]
If source is local, destination will have no patches
applied. If source is remote, this command can not check if
patches are applied in source, so cannot guarantee that
patches are not applied in destination. If you clone remote
repository, be sure before that it has no patches applied.
Source patch repository is looked for in <src>/.hg/patches
by default. Use -p <url> to change.
The patch directory must be a nested Mercurial repository,
as would be created by hg init --mq.
Return 0 on success.
Options:
--pull
use pull protocol to copy metadata
-U, --noupdate
do not update the new working directories
--uncompressed
use uncompressed transfer (fast over LAN)
-p, --patches
location of source patch repository
-e, --ssh
specify ssh command to use
--remotecmd
specify hg command to run on the remote side
--insecure
do not verify server certificate (ignoring web.cacerts
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config)
qcommit
hg qcommit [OPTION]... [FILE]...
This command is deprecated; use hg commit --mq instead.
Options:
-A, --addremove
mark new/missing files as added/removed before commit-
ting
--close-branch
mark a branch as closed, hiding it from the branch list
--amend
amend the parent of the working dir
-s, --secret
use the secret phase for committing
-I, --include
include names matching the given patterns
-X, --exclude
exclude names matching the given patterns
-m, --message
use text as commit message
-l, --logfile
read commit message from file
-d, --date
record the specified date as commit date
-u, --user
record the specified user as committer
-S, --subrepos
recurse into subrepositories
aliases: qci
qdelete
hg qdelete [-k] [PATCH]...
The patches must not be applied, and at least one patch is
required. Exact patch identifiers must be given. With
-k/--keep, the patch files are preserved in the patch direc-
tory.
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To stop managing a patch and move it into permanent history,
use the hg qfinish command.
Options:
-k, --keep
keep patch file
-r, --rev
stop managing a revision (DEPRECATED)
aliases: qremove qrm
qdiff
hg qdiff [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Shows a diff which includes the current patch as well as any
changes which have been made in the working directory since
the last refresh (thus showing what the current patch would
become after a qrefresh).
Use hg diff if you only want to see the changes made since
the last qrefresh, or hg export qtip if you want to see
changes made by the current patch without including changes
made since the qrefresh.
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
-a, --text
treat all files as text
-g, --git
use git extended diff format
--nodates
omit dates from diff headers
-p, --show-function
show which function each change is in
--reverse
produce a diff that undoes the changes
-w, --ignore-all-space
ignore white space when comparing lines
-b, --ignore-space-change
ignore changes in the amount of white space
-B, --ignore-blank-lines
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ignore changes whose lines are all blank
-U, --unified
number of lines of context to show
--stat
output diffstat-style summary of changes
-I, --include
include names matching the given patterns
-X, --exclude
exclude names matching the given patterns
qfinish
hg qfinish [-a] [REV]...
Finishes the specified revisions (corresponding to applied
patches) by moving them out of mq control into regular
repository history.
Accepts a revision range or the -a/--applied option. If
--applied is specified, all applied mq revisions are removed
from mq control. Otherwise, the given revisions must be at
the base of the stack of applied patches.
This can be especially useful if your changes have been
applied to an upstream repository, or if you are about to
push your changes to upstream.
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
-a, --applied
finish all applied changesets
qfold
hg qfold [-e] [-k] [-m TEXT] [-l FILE] PATCH...
Patches must not yet be applied. Each patch will be succes-
sively applied to the current patch in the order given. If
all the patches apply successfully, the current patch will
be refreshed with the new cumulative patch, and the folded
patches will be deleted. With -k/--keep, the folded patch
files will not be removed afterwards.
The header for each folded patch will be concatenated with
the current patch header, separated by a line of * * *.
Returns 0 on success.
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Options:
-e, --edit
edit patch header
-k, --keep
keep folded patch files
-m, --message
use text as commit message
-l, --logfile
read commit message from file
qgoto
hg qgoto [OPTION]... PATCH
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
--keep-changes
tolerate non-conflicting local changes
-f, --force
overwrite any local changes
--no-backup
do not save backup copies of files
qguard
hg qguard [-l] [-n] [PATCH] [-- [+GUARD]... [-GUARD]...]
Guards control whether a patch can be pushed. A patch with
no guards is always pushed. A patch with a positive guard
("+foo") is pushed only if the hg qselect command has acti-
vated it. A patch with a negative guard ("-foo") is never
pushed if the hg qselect command has activated it.
With no arguments, print the currently active guards. With
arguments, set guards for the named patch.
Note Specifying negative guards now requires '--'.
To set guards on another patch:
hg qguard other.patch -- +2.6.17 -stable
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
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-l, --list
list all patches and guards
-n, --none
drop all guards
qheader
hg qheader [PATCH]
Returns 0 on success.
qimport
hg qimport [-e] [-n NAME] [-f] [-g] [-P] [-r REV]... [FILE]...
The patch is inserted into the series after the last applied
patch. If no patches have been applied, qimport prepends the
patch to the series.
The patch will have the same name as its source file unless
you give it a new one with -n/--name.
You can register an existing patch inside the patch direc-
tory with the -e/--existing flag.
With -f/--force, an existing patch of the same name will be
overwritten.
An existing changeset may be placed under mq control with
-r/--rev (e.g. qimport --rev . -n patch will place the cur-
rent revision under mq control). With -g/--git, patches
imported with --rev will use the git diff format. See the
diffs help topic for information on why this is important
for preserving rename/copy information and permission
changes. Use hg qfinish to remove changesets from mq con-
trol.
To import a patch from standard input, pass - as the patch
file. When importing from standard input, a patch name must
be specified using the --name flag.
To import an existing patch while renaming it:
hg qimport -e existing-patch -n new-name
Returns 0 if import succeeded.
Options:
-e, --existing
import file in patch directory
-n, --name
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name of patch file
-f, --force
overwrite existing files
-r, --rev
place existing revisions under mq control
-g, --git
use git extended diff format
-P, --push
qpush after importing
qinit
hg qinit [-c]
The queue repository is unversioned by default. If -c/--cre-
ate-repo is specified, qinit will create a separate nested
repository for patches (qinit -c may also be run later to
convert an unversioned patch repository into a versioned
one). You can use qcommit to commit changes to this queue
repository.
This command is deprecated. Without -c, it's implied by
other relevant commands. With -c, use hg init --mq instead.
Options:
-c, --create-repo
create queue repository
qnew
hg qnew [-e] [-m TEXT] [-l FILE] PATCH [FILE]...
qnew creates a new patch on top of the currently-applied
patch (if any). The patch will be initialized with any out-
standing changes in the working directory. You may also use
-I/--include, -X/--exclude, and/or a list of files after the
patch name to add only changes to matching files to the new
patch, leaving the rest as uncommitted modifications.
-u/--user and -d/--date can be used to set the (given) user
and date, respectively. -U/--currentuser and -D/--current-
date set user to current user and date to current date.
-e/--edit, -m/--message or -l/--logfile set the patch header
as well as the commit message. If none is specified, the
header is empty and the commit message is '[mq]: PATCH'.
Use the -g/--git option to keep the patch in the git
extended diff format. Read the diffs help topic for more
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information on why this is important for preserving permis-
sion changes and copy/rename information.
Returns 0 on successful creation of a new patch.
Options:
-e, --edit
edit commit message
-f, --force
import uncommitted changes (DEPRECATED)
-g, --git
use git extended diff format
-U, --currentuser
add "From: <current user>" to patch
-u, --user
add "From: <USER>" to patch
-D, --currentdate
add "Date: <current date>" to patch
-d, --date
add "Date: <DATE>" to patch
-I, --include
include names matching the given patterns
-X, --exclude
exclude names matching the given patterns
-m, --message
use text as commit message
-l, --logfile
read commit message from file
qnext
hg qnext [-s]
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
-s, --summary
print first line of patch header
qpop
hg qpop [-a] [-f] [PATCH | INDEX]
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Without argument, pops off the top of the patch stack. If
given a patch name, keeps popping off patches until the
named patch is at the top of the stack.
By default, abort if the working directory contains uncom-
mitted changes. With --keep-changes, abort only if the
uncommitted files overlap with patched files. With
-f/--force, backup and discard changes made to such files.
Return 0 on success.
Options:
-a, --all
pop all patches
-n, --name
queue name to pop (DEPRECATED)
--keep-changes
tolerate non-conflicting local changes
-f, --force
forget any local changes to patched files
--no-backup
do not save backup copies of files
qprev
hg qprev [-s]
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
-s, --summary
print first line of patch header
qpush
hg qpush [-f] [-l] [-a] [--move] [PATCH | INDEX]
By default, abort if the working directory contains uncom-
mitted changes. With --keep-changes, abort only if the
uncommitted files overlap with patched files. With
-f/--force, backup and patch over uncommitted changes.
Return 0 on success.
Options:
--keep-changes
tolerate non-conflicting local changes
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-f, --force
apply on top of local changes
-e, --exact
apply the target patch to its recorded parent
-l, --list
list patch name in commit text
-a, --all
apply all patches
-m, --merge
merge from another queue (DEPRECATED)
-n, --name
merge queue name (DEPRECATED)
--move
reorder patch series and apply only the patch
--no-backup
do not save backup copies of files
qqueue
hg qqueue [OPTION] [QUEUE]
Supports switching between different patch queues, as well
as creating new patch queues and deleting existing ones.
Omitting a queue name or specifying -l/--list will show you
the registered queues - by default the "normal" patches
queue is registered. The currently active queue will be
marked with "(active)". Specifying --active will print only
the name of the active queue.
To create a new queue, use -c/--create. The queue is auto-
matically made active, except in the case where there are
applied patches from the currently active queue in the
repository. Then the queue will only be created and switch-
ing will fail.
To delete an existing queue, use --delete. You cannot delete
the currently active queue.
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
-l, --list
list all available queues
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--active
print name of active queue
-c, --create
create new queue
--rename
rename active queue
--delete
delete reference to queue
--purge
delete queue, and remove patch dir
qrefresh
hg qrefresh [-I] [-X] [-e] [-m TEXT] [-l FILE] [-s] [FILE]...
If any file patterns are provided, the refreshed patch will
contain only the modifications that match those patterns;
the remaining modifications will remain in the working
directory.
If -s/--short is specified, files currently included in the
patch will be refreshed just like matched files and remain
in the patch.
If -e/--edit is specified, Mercurial will start your config-
ured editor for you to enter a message. In case qrefresh
fails, you will find a backup of your message in
.hg/last-message.txt.
hg add/remove/copy/rename work as usual, though you might
want to use git-style patches (-g/--git or [diff] git=1) to
track copies and renames. See the diffs help topic for more
information on the git diff format.
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
-e, --edit
edit commit message
-g, --git
use git extended diff format
-s, --short
refresh only files already in the patch and specified
files
-U, --currentuser
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add/update author field in patch with current user
-u, --user
add/update author field in patch with given user
-D, --currentdate
add/update date field in patch with current date
-d, --date
add/update date field in patch with given date
-I, --include
include names matching the given patterns
-X, --exclude
exclude names matching the given patterns
-m, --message
use text as commit message
-l, --logfile
read commit message from file
qrename
hg qrename PATCH1 [PATCH2]
With one argument, renames the current patch to PATCH1.
With two arguments, renames PATCH1 to PATCH2.
Returns 0 on success.
aliases: qmv
qrestore
hg qrestore [-d] [-u] REV
This command is deprecated, use hg rebase instead.
Options:
-d, --delete
delete save entry
-u, --update
update queue working directory
qsave
hg qsave [-m TEXT] [-l FILE] [-c] [-n NAME] [-e] [-f]
This command is deprecated, use hg rebase instead.
Options:
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-c, --copy
copy patch directory
-n, --name
copy directory name
-e, --empty
clear queue status file
-f, --force
force copy
-m, --message
use text as commit message
-l, --logfile
read commit message from file
qselect
hg qselect [OPTION]... [GUARD]...
Use the hg qguard command to set or print guards on patch,
then use qselect to tell mq which guards to use. A patch
will be pushed if it has no guards or any positive guards
match the currently selected guard, but will not be pushed
if any negative guards match the current guard. For example:
qguard foo.patch -- -stable (negative guard)
qguard bar.patch +stable (positive guard)
qselect stable
This activates the "stable" guard. mq will skip foo.patch
(because it has a negative match) but push bar.patch
(because it has a positive match).
With no arguments, prints the currently active guards. With
one argument, sets the active guard.
Use -n/--none to deactivate guards (no other arguments
needed). When no guards are active, patches with positive
guards are skipped and patches with negative guards are
pushed.
qselect can change the guards on applied patches. It does
not pop guarded patches by default. Use --pop to pop back to
the last applied patch that is not guarded. Use --reapply
(which implies --pop) to push back to the current patch
afterwards, but skip guarded patches.
Use -s/--series to print a list of all guards in the series
file (no other arguments needed). Use -v for more informa-
tion.
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Returns 0 on success.
Options:
-n, --none
disable all guards
-s, --series
list all guards in series file
--pop
pop to before first guarded applied patch
--reapply
pop, then reapply patches
qseries
hg qseries [-ms]
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
-m, --missing
print patches not in series
-s, --summary
print first line of patch header
qtop
hg qtop [-s]
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
-s, --summary
print first line of patch header
qunapplied
hg qunapplied [-1] [-s] [PATCH]
Returns 0 on success.
Options:
-1, --first
show only the first patch
-s, --summary
print first line of patch header
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notify
hooks for sending email push notifications
This extension implements hooks to send email notifications
when changesets are sent from or received by the local
repository.
First, enable the extension as explained in hg help exten-
sions, and register the hook you want to run. incoming and
changegroup hooks are run when changesets are received,
while outgoing hooks are for changesets sent to another
repository:
[hooks]
# one email for each incoming changeset
incoming.notify = python:hgext.notify.hook
# one email for all incoming changesets
changegroup.notify = python:hgext.notify.hook
# one email for all outgoing changesets
outgoing.notify = python:hgext.notify.hook
This registers the hooks. To enable notification, sub-
scribers must be assigned to repositories. The [usersubs]
section maps multiple repositories to a given recipient. The
[reposubs] section maps multiple recipients to a single
repository:
[usersubs]
# key is subscriber email, value is a comma-separated list of repo patterns
user@host = pattern
[reposubs]
# key is repo pattern, value is a comma-separated list of subscriber emails
pattern = user@host
A pattern is a glob matching the absolute path to a reposi-
tory, optionally combined with a revset expression. A revset
expression, if present, is separated from the glob by a
hash. Example:
[reposubs]
*/widgets#branch(release) = [email protected]
This sends to [email protected] whenever a changeset on
the release branch triggers a notification in any repository
ending in widgets.
In order to place them under direct user management, [user-
subs] and [reposubs] sections may be placed in a separate
hgrc file and incorporated by reference:
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[notify]
config = /path/to/subscriptionsfile
Notifications will not be sent until the notify.test value
is set to False; see below.
Notifications content can be tweaked with the following con-
figuration entries:
notify.test
If True, print messages to stdout instead of sending
them. Default: True.
notify.sources
Space-separated list of change sources. Notifications
are activated only when a changeset's source is in this
list. Sources may be:
serve
changesets received via http or ssh
pull
changesets received via hg pull
unbundle
changesets received via hg unbundle
push
changesets sent or received via hg push
bundle
changesets sent via hg unbundle
Default: serve.
notify.strip
Number of leading slashes to strip from url paths. By
default, notifications reference repositories with
their absolute path. notify.strip lets you turn them
into relative paths. For example, notify.strip=3 will
change /long/path/repository into repository. Default:
0.
notify.domain
Default email domain for sender or recipients with no
explicit domain.
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notify.style
Style file to use when formatting emails.
notify.template
Template to use when formatting emails.
notify.incoming
Template to use when run as an incoming hook, overrid-
ing notify.template.
notify.outgoing
Template to use when run as an outgoing hook, overrid-
ing notify.template.
notify.changegroup
Template to use when running as a changegroup hook,
overriding notify.template.
notify.maxdiff
Maximum number of diff lines to include in notification
email. Set to 0 to disable the diff, or -1 to include
all of it. Default: 300.
notify.maxsubject
Maximum number of characters in email's subject line.
Default: 67.
notify.diffstat
Set to True to include a diffstat before diff content.
Default: True.
notify.merge
If True, send notifications for merge changesets.
Default: True.
notify.mbox
If set, append mails to this mbox file instead of send-
ing. Default: None.
notify.fromauthor
If set, use the committer of the first changeset in a
changegroup for the "From" field of the notification
mail. If not set, take the user from the pushing repo.
Default: False.
If set, the following entries will also be used to customize
the notifications:
email.from
Email From address to use if none can be found in the
generated email content.
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web.baseurl
Root repository URL to combine with repository paths
when making references. See also notify.strip.
pager
browse command output with an external pager
To set the pager that should be used, set the application
variable:
[pager]
pager = less -FRX
If no pager is set, the pager extensions uses the environ-
ment variable $PAGER. If neither pager.pager, nor $PAGER is
set, no pager is used.
You can disable the pager for certain commands by adding
them to the pager.ignore list:
[pager]
ignore = version, help, update
You can also enable the pager only for certain commands
using pager.attend. Below is the default list of commands to
be paged:
[pager]
attend = annotate, cat, diff, export, glog, log, qdiff
Setting pager.attend to an empty value will cause all com-
mands to be paged.
If pager.attend is present, pager.ignore will be ignored.
To ignore global commands like hg version or hg help, you
have to specify them in your user configuration file.
The --pager=... option can also be used to control when the
pager is used. Use a boolean value like yes, no, on, off, or
use auto for normal behavior.
patchbomb
command to send changesets as (a series of) patch emails
The series is started off with a "[PATCH 0 of N]" introduc-
tion, which describes the series as a whole.
Each patch email has a Subject line of "[PATCH M of N] ...",
using the first line of the changeset description as the
subject text. The message contains two or three body parts:
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o The changeset description.
o [Optional] The result of running diffstat on the patch.
o The patch itself, as generated by hg export.
Each message refers to the first in the series using the
In-Reply-To and References headers, so they will show up as
a sequence in threaded mail and news readers, and in mail
archives.
To configure other defaults, add a section like this to your
configuration file:
[email]
from = My Name <my@email>
to = recipient1, recipient2, ...
cc = cc1, cc2, ...
bcc = bcc1, bcc2, ...
reply-to = address1, address2, ...
Use [patchbomb] as configuration section name if you need to
override global [email] address settings.
Then you can use the hg email command to mail a series of
changesets as a patchbomb.
You can also either configure the method option in the email
section to be a sendmail compatible mailer or fill out the
[smtp] section so that the patchbomb extension can automati-
cally send patchbombs directly from the commandline. See the
[email] and [smtp] sections in hgrc(5) for details.
Commands
email
hg email [OPTION]... [DEST]...
By default, diffs are sent in the format generated by hg
export, one per message. The series starts with a "[PATCH 0
of N]" introduction, which describes the series as a whole.
Each patch email has a Subject line of "[PATCH M of N] ...",
using the first line of the changeset description as the
subject text. The message contains two or three parts.
First, the changeset description.
With the -d/--diffstat option, if the diffstat program is
installed, the result of running diffstat on the patch is
inserted.
Finally, the patch itself, as generated by hg export.
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With the -d/--diffstat or --confirm options, you will be
presented with a final summary of all messages and asked for
confirmation before the messages are sent.
By default the patch is included as text in the email body
for easy reviewing. Using the -a/--attach option will
instead create an attachment for the patch. With -i/--inline
an inline attachment will be created. You can include a
patch both as text in the email body and as a regular or an
inline attachment by combining the -a/--attach or
-i/--inline with the --body option.
With -o/--outgoing, emails will be generated for patches not
found in the destination repository (or only those which are
ancestors of the specified revisions if any are provided)
With -b/--bundle, changesets are selected as for --outgoing,
but a single email containing a binary Mercurial bundle as
an attachment will be sent.
With -m/--mbox, instead of previewing each patchbomb message
in a pager or sending the messages directly, it will create
a UNIX mailbox file with the patch emails. This mailbox file
can be previewed with any mail user agent which supports
UNIX mbox files.
With -n/--test, all steps will run, but mail will not be
sent. You will be prompted for an email recipient address,
a subject and an introductory message describing the patches
of your patchbomb. Then when all is done, patchbomb mes-
sages are displayed. If the PAGER environment variable is
set, your pager will be fired up once for each patchbomb
message, so you can verify everything is alright.
In case email sending fails, you will find a backup of your
series introductory message in .hg/last-email.txt.
Examples:
hg email -r 3000 # send patch 3000 only
hg email -r 3000 -r 3001 # send patches 3000 and 3001
hg email -r 3000:3005 # send patches 3000 through 3005
hg email 3000 # send patch 3000 (deprecated)
hg email -o # send all patches not in default
hg email -o DEST # send all patches not in DEST
hg email -o -r 3000 # send all ancestors of 3000 not in default
hg email -o -r 3000 DEST # send all ancestors of 3000 not in DEST
hg email -b # send bundle of all patches not in default
hg email -b DEST # send bundle of all patches not in DEST
hg email -b -r 3000 # bundle of all ancestors of 3000 not in default
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hg email -b -r 3000 DEST # bundle of all ancestors of 3000 not in DEST
hg email -o -m mbox && # generate an mbox file...
mutt -R -f mbox # ... and view it with mutt
hg email -o -m mbox && # generate an mbox file ...
formail -s sendmail \ # ... and use formail to send from the mbox
-bm -t < mbox # ... using sendmail
Before using this command, you will need to enable email in
your hgrc. See the [email] section in hgrc(5) for details.
Options:
-g, --git
use git extended diff format
--plain
omit hg patch header
-o, --outgoing
send changes not found in the target repository
-b, --bundle
send changes not in target as a binary bundle
--bundlename
name of the bundle attachment file (default: bundle)
-r, --rev
a revision to send
--force
run even when remote repository is unrelated (with
-b/--bundle)
--base
a base changeset to specify instead of a destination
(with -b/--bundle)
--intro
send an introduction email for a single patch
--body
send patches as inline message text (default)
-a, --attach
send patches as attachments
-i, --inline
send patches as inline attachments
--bcc
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email addresses of blind carbon copy recipients
-c, --cc
email addresses of copy recipients
--confirm
ask for confirmation before sending
-d, --diffstat
add diffstat output to messages
--date
use the given date as the sending date
--desc
use the given file as the series description
-f, --from
email address of sender
-n, --test
print messages that would be sent
-m, --mbox
write messages to mbox file instead of sending them
--reply-to
email addresses replies should be sent to
-s, --subject
subject of first message (intro or single patch)
--in-reply-to
message identifier to reply to
--flag
flags to add in subject prefixes
-t, --to
email addresses of recipients
-e, --ssh
specify ssh command to use
--remotecmd
specify hg command to run on the remote side
--insecure
do not verify server certificate (ignoring web.cacerts
config)
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progress
show progress bars for some actions
This extension uses the progress information logged by hg
commands to draw progress bars that are as informative as
possible. Some progress bars only offer indeterminate infor-
mation, while others have a definite end point.
The following settings are available:
[progress]
delay = 3 # number of seconds (float) before showing the progress bar
changedelay = 1 # changedelay: minimum delay before showing a new topic.
# If set to less than 3 * refresh, that value will
# be used instead.
refresh = 0.1 # time in seconds between refreshes of the progress bar
format = topic bar number estimate # format of the progress bar
width = <none> # if set, the maximum width of the progress information
# (that is, min(width, term width) will be used)
clear-complete = True # clear the progress bar after it's done
disable = False # if true, don't show a progress bar
assume-tty = False # if true, ALWAYS show a progress bar, unless
# disable is given
Valid entries for the format field are topic, bar, number,
unit, estimate, speed, and item. item defaults to the last
20 characters of the item, but this can be changed by adding
either -<num> which would take the last num characters, or
+<num> for the first num characters.
purge
command to delete untracked files from the working directory
Commands
purge
hg purge [OPTION]... [DIR]...
Delete files not known to Mercurial. This is useful to test
local and uncommitted changes in an otherwise-clean source
tree.
This means that purge will delete:
o Unknown files: files marked with "?" by hg status
o Empty directories: in fact Mercurial ignores directories
unless they contain files under source control management
But it will leave untouched:
o Modified and unmodified tracked files
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o Ignored files (unless --all is specified)
o New files added to the repository (with hg add)
If directories are given on the command line, only files in
these directories are considered.
Be careful with purge, as you could irreversibly delete some
files you forgot to add to the repository. If you only want
to print the list of files that this program would delete,
use the --print option.
Options:
-a, --abort-on-err
abort if an error occurs
--all
purge ignored files too
-p, --print
print filenames instead of deleting them
-0, --print0
end filenames with NUL, for use with xargs (implies
-p/--print)
-I, --include
include names matching the given patterns
-X, --exclude
exclude names matching the given patterns
aliases: clean
rebase
command to move sets of revisions to a different ancestor
This extension lets you rebase changesets in an existing
Mercurial repository.
For more information: http://mercu-
rial.selenic.com/wiki/RebaseExtension
Commands
rebase
hg rebase [-s REV | -b REV] [-d REV] [OPTION]
Rebase uses repeated merging to graft changesets from one
part of history (the source) onto another (the destination).
This can be useful for linearizing local changes relative to
a master development tree.
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You should not rebase changesets that have already been
shared with others. Doing so will force everybody else to
perform the same rebase or they will end up with duplicated
changesets after pulling in your rebased changesets.
In its default configuration, Mercurial will prevent you
from rebasing published changes. See hg help phases for
details.
If you don't specify a destination changeset (-d/--dest),
rebase uses the current branch tip as the destination. (The
destination changeset is not modified by rebasing, but new
changesets are added as its descendants.)
You can specify which changesets to rebase in two ways: as a
"source" changeset or as a "base" changeset. Both are short-
hand for a topologically related set of changesets (the
"source branch"). If you specify source (-s/--source),
rebase will rebase that changeset and all of its descendants
onto dest. If you specify base (-b/--base), rebase will
select ancestors of base back to but not including the com-
mon ancestor with dest. Thus, -b is less precise but more
convenient than -s: you can specify any changeset in the
source branch, and rebase will select the whole branch. If
you specify neither -s nor -b, rebase uses the parent of the
working directory as the base.
For advanced usage, a third way is available through the
--rev option. It allows you to specify an arbitrary set of
changesets to rebase. Descendants of revs you specify with
this option are not automatically included in the rebase.
By default, rebase recreates the changesets in the source
branch as descendants of dest and then destroys the origi-
nals. Use --keep to preserve the original source changesets.
Some changesets in the source branch (e.g. merges from the
destination branch) may be dropped if they no longer con-
tribute any change.
One result of the rules for selecting the destination
changeset and source branch is that, unlike merge, rebase
will do nothing if you are at the branch tip of a named
branch with two heads. You need to explicitly specify source
and/or destination (or update to the other head, if it's the
head of the intended source branch).
If a rebase is interrupted to manually resolve a merge, it
can be continued with --continue/-c or aborted with
--abort/-a.
Returns 0 on success, 1 if nothing to rebase or there are
unresolved conflicts.
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Options:
-s, --source
rebase from the specified changeset
-b, --base
rebase from the base of the specified changeset (up to
greatest common ancestor of base and dest)
-r, --rev
rebase these revisions
-d, --dest
rebase onto the specified changeset
--collapse
collapse the rebased changesets
-m, --message
use text as collapse commit message
-e, --edit
invoke editor on commit messages
-l, --logfile
read collapse commit message from file
--keep
keep original changesets
--keepbranches
keep original branch names
-D, --detach
(DEPRECATED)
-t, --tool
specify merge tool
-c, --continue
continue an interrupted rebase
-a, --abort
abort an interrupted rebase
--style
display using template map file
--template
display with template
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record
commands to interactively select changes for commit/qrefresh
Commands
qrecord
hg qrecord [OPTION]... PATCH [FILE]...
See hg help qnew & hg help record for more information and
usage.
record
hg record [OPTION]... [FILE]...
If a list of files is omitted, all changes reported by hg
status will be candidates for recording.
See hg help dates for a list of formats valid for -d/--date.
You will be prompted for whether to record changes to each
modified file, and for files with multiple changes, for each
change to use. For each query, the following responses are
possible:
y - record this change
n - skip this change
e - edit this change manually
s - skip remaining changes to this file
f - record remaining changes to this file
d - done, skip remaining changes and files
a - record all changes to all remaining files
q - quit, recording no changes
? - display help
This command is not available when committing a merge.
Options:
-A, --addremove
mark new/missing files as added/removed before commit-
ting
--close-branch
mark a branch as closed, hiding it from the branch list
--amend
amend the parent of the working dir
-s, --secret
use the secret phase for committing
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-I, --include
include names matching the given patterns
-X, --exclude
exclude names matching the given patterns
-m, --message
use text as commit message
-l, --logfile
read commit message from file
-d, --date
record the specified date as commit date
-u, --user
record the specified user as committer
-S, --subrepos
recurse into subrepositories
-w, --ignore-all-space
ignore white space when comparing lines
-b, --ignore-space-change
ignore changes in the amount of white space
-B, --ignore-blank-lines
ignore changes whose lines are all blank
relink
recreates hardlinks between repository clones
Commands
relink
hg relink [ORIGIN]
When repositories are cloned locally, their data files will
be hardlinked so that they only use the space of a single
repository.
Unfortunately, subsequent pulls into either repository will
break hardlinks for any files touched by the new changesets,
even if both repositories end up pulling the same changes.
Similarly, passing --rev to "hg clone" will fail to use any
hardlinks, falling back to a complete copy of the source
repository.
This command lets you recreate those hardlinks and reclaim
that wasted space.
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This repository will be relinked to share space with ORIGIN,
which must be on the same local disk. If ORIGIN is omitted,
looks for "default-relink", then "default", in [paths].
Do not attempt any read operations on this repository while
the command is running. (Both repositories will be locked
against writes.)
schemes
extend schemes with shortcuts to repository swarms
This extension allows you to specify shortcuts for parent
URLs with a lot of repositories to act like a scheme, for
example:
[schemes]
py = http://code.python.org/hg/
After that you can use it like:
hg clone py://trunk/
Additionally there is support for some more complex schemas,
for example used by Google Code:
[schemes]
gcode = http://{1}.googlecode.com/hg/
The syntax is taken from Mercurial templates, and you have
unlimited number of variables, starting with {1} and contin-
uing with {2}, {3} and so on. This variables will receive
parts of URL supplied, split by /. Anything not specified as
{part} will be just appended to an URL.
For convenience, the extension adds these schemes by
default:
[schemes]
py = http://hg.python.org/
bb = https://bitbucket.org/
bb+ssh = ssh://[email protected]/
gcode = https://{1}.googlecode.com/hg/
kiln = https://{1}.kilnhg.com/Repo/
You can override a predefined scheme by defining a new
scheme with the same name.
share
share a common history between several working directories
Commands
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share
hg share [-U] SOURCE [DEST]
Initialize a new repository and working directory that
shares its history with another repository.
Note using rollback or extensions that destroy/modify his-
tory (mq, rebase, etc.) can cause considerable confu-
sion with shared clones. In particular, if two shared
clones are both updated to the same changeset, and one
of them destroys that changeset with rollback, the
other clone will suddenly stop working: all operations
will fail with "abort: working directory has unknown
parent". The only known workaround is to use debugset-
parents on the broken clone to reset it to a changeset
that still exists.
Options:
-U, --noupdate
do not create a working copy
unshare
hg unshare
Copy the store data to the repo and remove the sharedpath
data.
shelve
save and restore changes to the working directory
The "hg shelve" command saves changes made to the working
directory and reverts those changes, resetting the working
directory to a clean state.
Later on, the "hg unshelve" command restores the changes
saved by "hg shelve". Changes can be restored even after
updating to a different parent, in which case Mercurial's
merge machinery will resolve any conflicts if necessary.
You can have more than one shelved change outstanding at a
time; each shelved change has a distinct name. For details,
see the help for "hg shelve".
Commands
shelve
hg shelve
Shelving takes files that "hg status" reports as not clean,
saves the modifications to a bundle (a shelved change), and
reverts the files so that their state in the working direc-
tory becomes clean.
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To restore these changes to the working directory, using "hg
unshelve"; this will work even if you switch to a different
commit.
When no files are specified, "hg shelve" saves all not-clean
files. If specific files or directories are named, only
changes to those files are shelved.
Each shelved change has a name that makes it easier to find
later. The name of a shelved change defaults to being based
on the active bookmark, or if there is no active bookmark,
the current named branch. To specify a different name, use
--name.
To see a list of existing shelved changes, use the --list
option. For each shelved change, this will print its name,
age, and description; use --patch or --stat for more
details.
To delete specific shelved changes, use --delete. To delete
all shelved changes, use --cleanup.
Options:
-A, --addremove
mark new/missing files as added/removed before shelving
--cleanup
delete all shelved changes
--date
shelve with the specified commit date
-d, --delete
delete the named shelved change(s)
-l, --list
list current shelves
-m, --message
use text as shelve message
-n, --name
use the given name for the shelved commit
-p, --patch
show patch
--stat
output diffstat-style summary of changes
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unshelve
hg unshelve [SHELVED]
This command accepts an optional name of a shelved change to
restore. If none is given, the most recent shelved change is
used.
If a shelved change is applied successfully, the bundle that
contains the shelved changes is deleted afterwards.
Since you can restore a shelved change on top of an arbi-
trary commit, it is possible that unshelving will result in
a conflict between your changes and the commits you are
unshelving onto. If this occurs, you must resolve the con-
flict, then use --continue to complete the unshelve opera-
tion. (The bundle will not be deleted until you successfully
complete the unshelve.)
(Alternatively, you can use --abort to abandon an unshelve
that causes a conflict. This reverts the unshelved changes,
and does not delete the bundle.)
Options:
-a, --abort
abort an incomplete unshelve operation
-c, --continue
continue an incomplete unshelve operation
--keep
keep shelve after unshelving
strip
strip changesets and their descendents from history
This extension allows you to strip changesets and all their
descendants from the repository. See the command help for
details.
Commands
strip
hg strip [-k] [-f] [-n] [-B bookmark] [-r] REV...
The strip command removes the specified changesets and all
their descendants. If the working directory has uncommitted
changes, the operation is aborted unless the --force flag is
supplied, in which case changes will be discarded.
If a parent of the working directory is stripped, then the
working directory will automatically be updated to the most
recent available ancestor of the stripped parent after the
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operation completes.
Any stripped changesets are stored in .hg/strip-backup as a
bundle (see hg help bundle and hg help unbundle). They can
be restored by running hg unbundle .hg/strip-backup/BUNDLE,
where BUNDLE is the bundle file created by the strip. Note
that the local revision numbers will in general be different
after the restore.
Use the --no-backup option to discard the backup bundle once
the operation completes.
Strip is not a history-rewriting operation and can be used
on changesets in the public phase. But if the stripped
changesets have been pushed to a remote repository you will
likely pull them again.
Return 0 on success.
Options:
-r, --rev
strip specified revision (optional, can specify revi-
sions without this option)
-f, --force
force removal of changesets, discard uncommitted
changes (no backup)
-b, --backup
bundle only changesets with local revision number
greater than REV which are not descendants of REV (DEP-
RECATED)
--no-backup
no backups
--nobackup
no backups (DEPRECATED)
-n ignored (DEPRECATED)
-k, --keep
do not modify working copy during strip
-B, --bookmark
remove revs only reachable from given bookmark
transplant
command to transplant changesets from another branch
This extension allows you to transplant changes to another
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parent revision, possibly in another repository. The trans-
plant is done using 'diff' patches.
Transplanted patches are recorded in .hg/transplant/trans-
plants, as a map from a changeset hash to its hash in the
source repository.
Commands
transplant
hg transplant [-s REPO] [-b BRANCH [-a]] [-p REV] [-m REV] [REV]...
Selected changesets will be applied on top of the current
working directory with the log of the original changeset.
The changesets are copied and will thus appear twice in the
history with different identities.
Consider using the graft command if everything is inside the
same repository - it will use merges and will usually give a
better result. Use the rebase extension if the changesets
are unpublished and you want to move them instead of copying
them.
If --log is specified, log messages will have a comment
appended of the form:
(transplanted from CHANGESETHASH)
You can rewrite the changelog message with the --filter
option. Its argument will be invoked with the current
changelog message as $1 and the patch as $2.
--source/-s specifies another repository to use for select-
ing changesets, just as if it temporarily had been pulled.
If --branch/-b is specified, these revisions will be used as
heads when deciding which changesets to transplant, just as
if only these revisions had been pulled. If --all/-a is
specified, all the revisions up to the heads specified with
--branch will be transplanted.
Example:
o transplant all changes up to REV on top of your current
revision:
hg transplant --branch REV --all
You can optionally mark selected transplanted changesets as
merge changesets. You will not be prompted to transplant any
ancestors of a merged transplant, and you can merge descen-
dants of them normally instead of transplanting them.
Merge changesets may be transplanted directly by specifying
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the proper parent changeset by calling hg transplant --par-
ent.
If no merges or revisions are provided, hg transplant will
start an interactive changeset browser.
If a changeset application fails, you can fix the merge by
hand and then resume where you left off by calling hg trans-
plant --continue/-c.
Options:
-s, --source
transplant changesets from REPO
-b, --branch
use this source changeset as head
-a, --all
pull all changesets up to the --branch revisions
-p, --prune
skip over REV
-m, --merge
merge at REV
--parent
parent to choose when transplanting merge
-e, --edit
invoke editor on commit messages
--log
append transplant info to log message
-c, --continue
continue last transplant session after fixing conflicts
--filter
filter changesets through command
win32mbcs
allow the use of MBCS paths with problematic encodings
Some MBCS encodings are not good for some path operations
(i.e. splitting path, case conversion, etc.) with its
encoded bytes. We call such a encoding (i.e. shift_jis and
big5) as "problematic encoding". This extension can be used
to fix the issue with those encodings by wrapping some func-
tions to convert to Unicode string before path operation.
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This extension is useful for:
o Japanese Windows users using shift_jis encoding.
o Chinese Windows users using big5 encoding.
o All users who use a repository with one of problematic
encodings on case-insensitive file system.
This extension is not needed for:
o Any user who use only ASCII chars in path.
o Any user who do not use any of problematic encodings.
Note that there are some limitations on using this exten-
sion:
o You should use single encoding in one repository.
o If the repository path ends with 0x5c, .hg/hgrc cannot be
read.
o win32mbcs is not compatible with fixutf8 extension.
By default, win32mbcs uses encoding.encoding decided by Mer-
curial. You can specify the encoding by config option:
[win32mbcs]
encoding = sjis
It is useful for the users who want to commit with UTF-8 log
message.
win32text
perform automatic newline conversion
Deprecation: The win32text extension requires each user
to configure the extension again and again for each clone
since the configuration is not copied when cloning.
We have therefore made the eol as an alternative. The eol
uses a version controlled file for its configuration and
each clone will therefore use the right settings from the
start.
To perform automatic newline conversion, use:
[extensions]
win32text =
[encode]
** = cleverencode:
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# or ** = macencode:
[decode]
** = cleverdecode:
# or ** = macdecode:
If not doing conversion, to make sure you do not commit
CRLF/CR by accident:
[hooks]
pretxncommit.crlf = python:hgext.win32text.forbidcrlf
# or pretxncommit.cr = python:hgext.win32text.forbidcr
To do the same check on a server to prevent CRLF/CR from
being pushed or pulled:
[hooks]
pretxnchangegroup.crlf = python:hgext.win32text.forbidcrlf
# or pretxnchangegroup.cr = python:hgext.win32text.forbidcr
zeroconf
discover and advertise repositories on the local network
Zeroconf-enabled repositories will be announced in a network
without the need to configure a server or a service. They
can be discovered without knowing their actual IP address.
To allow other people to discover your repository using run
hg serve in your repository:
$ cd test
$ hg serve
You can discover Zeroconf-enabled repositories by running hg
paths:
$ hg paths
zc-test = http://example.com:8000/test
FILES
/etc/mercurial/hgrc, $HOME/.hgrc, .hg/hgrc
This file contains defaults and configuration. Values
in .hg/hgrc override those in $HOME/.hgrc, and these
override settings made in the global /etc/mercu-
rial/hgrc configuration. See hgrc(5) for details of
the contents and format of these files.
.hgignore
This file contains regular expressions (one per line)
that describe file names that should be ignored by hg.
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For details, see hgignore(5).
.hgsub
This file defines the locations of all subrepositories,
and tells where the subrepository checkouts came from.
For details, see hg help subrepos.
.hgsubstate
This file is where Mercurial stores all nested reposi-
tory states. NB: This file should not be edited manu-
ally.
.hgtags
This file contains changeset hash values and text tag
names (one of each separated by spaces) that correspond
to tagged versions of the repository contents. The file
content is encoded using UTF-8.
.hg/last-message.txt
This file is used by hg commit to store a backup of the
commit message in case the commit fails.
.hg/localtags
This file can be used to define local tags which are
not shared among repositories. The file format is the
same as for .hgtags, but it is encoded using the local
system encoding.
/usr/demo/mercurial
This directory contains assorted files which are part
of the Mercurial distribution, but not core to its
functionality. They will generally need to be copied
elsewhere to be of use.
Some commands (e.g. revert) produce backup files ending in
.orig, if the .orig file already exists and is not tracked
by Mercurial, it will be overwritten.
BUGS
Probably lots, please post them to the mailing list (see
Resources below) when you find them.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
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+---------------+--------------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------------------+
|Availability | developer/versioning/mercurial |
+---------------+--------------------------------+
|Stability | Committed |
+---------------+--------------------------------+
SEE ALSO
hgignore(5), hgrc(5)
AUTHOR
Written by Matt Mackall <[email protected]>
RESOURCES
Main Web Site: http://mercurial.selenic.com/
Source code repository: http://selenic.com/hg
Mailing list: http://selenic.com/mailman/listinfo/mercurial
COPYING
Copyright (C) 2005-2013 Matt Mackall. Free use of this
software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Pub-
lic License version 2 or any later version.
AUTHOR
Matt Mackall <[email protected]>
Organization: Mercurial
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/release/mercu-
rial-2.8.2.tar.gz
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://mercu-
rial.selenic.com/.
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