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=== Updating with mutiple heads === | === Updating with mutiple heads === | ||
Updating your working copy is a bit more complex when there are mutiple heads in the repo. Quoth <code>hg up --help</code>: | Updating your working copy is a bit more complex when there are mutiple heads in the repo. Quoth <code>hg up --help</code>: |
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Tips and Tricks
Preparing a local repo for a cws
- If you want to create a local repo for an existing cws, take care to clone to the milestone of the cws.
hg clone -r <CWS_milestone> <local_prestine copy> <local_cws_repo>
If the cws is on DEV300_m60 and you pull it into a local repo that is on DEV300_m61 , you will create new heads in the local repo. If you not comfortable in handling multiple heads, then dont do that!
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After pulling/merging
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hg log --follow-first
is a convenient way to display your CWS changes at the top of the log. -
hg log --follow-first -P <original_clone_milestone>
will show only the CWS changesets. -
hg outgoing
works as well, of course.
Combined diff which contains exactly the changes of your CWS without anything pulled from master
- If your current milestone tag is locally available:
hg diff -r <current_milestone_tag>
- If your current milestone tag is *not* locally available (might happen, see above):
- search for your last pull/merge from the master with
hg log -m
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hg diff -r <second_parent_of_last_master_merge>
- Alternatively, if you just did a pull/merge from master:
hg export --switch-parent tip
- search for your last pull/merge from the master with
Styles
The default output format of some commands does not suit you? Use styles:
hg log --style=compact
hg outgoing --style=changelog"
- Or create your own format with the template engine:
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hg outgoing --template '{date|shortdate} {author|person} {desc}\n' --newest-first
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On Windows/cygwin
TortoiseHg
Depending on the cygwin version, using cygwins hg (and other tools) sometimes fails. TortoiseHg (http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/stable/wiki/Home) can be used as alternative.
To get rid of cygwin's hg rename /usr/bin/hg
.
You can decide which ssl support you use in the cygwin shell.
If you want to use the ssh-agent then you have to specify the following line in the [ui]
section of ~/.hgrc
:
ssh = <Windows path to cygwin>\bin\ssh.exe -C
For the graphical interface of TortoiseHg Putty's pageant is the default ssh key provider. TortoiseHg allows easy graphical access to hg repositories within the Windows Explorer.
Accessing repository over ssh
- If you want to use the ssh client of your Cygwin shell (and also ssh-agent), add the following to the
[ui]
section of yourmercurial.ini
:
ssh = ssh -C
Handling multiple heads
Getting rid of multiple heads
When you accidentally created a repo with multiple heads, these are the possibilities to get rid of them:
Merge heads
-
hg merge
This is the easiest possibility.
Strip an unwanted branch
- hg strip can be used to get rid of the unwanted branch. It is provided by the Mq Extension.
Updating with mutiple heads
Updating your working copy is a bit more complex when there are mutiple heads in the repo. Quoth hg up --help
:
Update the repository's working directory to the specified revision, or the tip of the current branch if none is specified. Use null as the revision to remove the working copy (like 'hg clone -U').
So, if you clone a repo up to DEV300_m62
creating a working copy of its tip, and then pull a DEV300_m60
-based cws and do a hg up
you will not be on the tip of the cws, because Mercurial will not switch branches. If you want that, you would need a hg up -C -r tip
.
Be careful, as this destroys any uncommited changes on the working copy. See hg up --help for details.
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Containing multiple heads locally
If you (for whatever reason) have multiple heads in a local repo, pushing to outgoing will fail because it would create new heads. In this case you can specify one head and push only that one and if no new heads will be created this way, everything will work fine. Use hg heads
to find the head you want to push and then use
hg push -r <changeset_id_of _selected_head>
to push this head.