Mercurial & hg view

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Install on Ubuntu and Debian:  sudo apt-get install mercurial

hg view How?

You try the ‘hg view’ command and you will get an error:

sudo apt-get install mercurial
sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-dev build-essential
sudo easy_install -U mercurial
wget http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/release/mercurial-1.0.tar.gz
tar zxvf mercurial-x.x.tar.gz
cp mercurial-x.x/contrib/hgk /usr/bin
sudo apt-get install tk8.5

put the following in your $HOME/.hgrc

[extensions]
hgk=/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/mercurial-1.5.1-py2.6-linux-i686.egg/hgext/hgk.py

[hgk]
path=/your home/bin/hgk

Some Useful Commands:

The actual version information: hg version
Create a new repository in the given directory:hg help init
hg init [-e CMD] [--remotecmd CMD] [DEST]

Making a local copy of a repository: hg clone <directory>
or hg clone ssh://sourceforge.foo:port/removeDirectory

Through history: hg log or hg glog

Viewing specific revisions use the -r (or --rev) option
hg log -r 024584ws345
hg log -r q272e0d5w32 -r 0272e0d5w324

More detailed information add -v (or --verbose) option
To see content of a change add the -p (or --patch) option
e.g. hg log -v -p -l 9 | less

To display the change set: hg tip -vp
pull the changes: hg in, hg pull
update the working copy: hg up (update)

merging the changes

incoming change: hg in -v
outgoing change: hg out -v
hg merge -r default (tip)

The life of a patch

hg qnew -f <file-name> (create a new patch)
hg qimport fileName (import a patch file)
hg qseries -v (listen patches views)
hg qpop (remove the top patch) and hg qpop -a (for unapply all patches)
hg qpush (apply the patch again form the top) and hg qpush -a (apply all patches)

Specify a patch by name:
hg qpop -n <patch name>hg qpush -n <patch name>
hg qren (for rename a patch)
hg qrm <patch name> (remove patch)
hg qrefresh -U -e (check out the latest update of the patches)

hg log -v -r tip (Control)
hg qdiff | less -S
hg qrefresh -X foo (to exclude files matching foo)

Merge the changes from first-patch into second-patch
hg qgoto first-patch # go to first patch
hg qfold second-patch # fold second patch into it