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-1.0.tar.gz
cp mercurial-1.0/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>

Through history: hg log or 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

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

merging the changes

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

The life of a patch

# create a new patch
hg qnew -f <file-name>
hg qser
# remove the top patch
hg qpop
# Apply the patch again
hg qpush
# Unapply all patches
hg qpop -a
# Apply all patches
hg qpush -a
hg qpop -n <patch name>hg qpush -n <patch name>
# remove patch
hg qrm <patch name>
hg qrefresh -U -e

hg qgoto patch1;
hg qfold patch2;