Mercurial

Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool.

Index

• General
• Repositories
• Branches
• Tags
• Make changes
• Revert changes
• Synchronize changes
• Show changes
• Merge branches

General

Configure mercurial.

hg config --edit

Ignore SSL certificate error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate.

--insecure

Repositories

Create a new repository.

hg init

Download a repository.

hg clone <repository>

Branches

List all branches.

hg branches

Create a new branch.

hg branch <name>
hg commit -m "New branch"
hg push --new-branch

Switch to the specified branch.

hg update <branch>
hg checkout <branch>

hg update -C <branch>

Tags

Create a tag.

hg tag [--local] <name>
hg push

Remove a tag.

hg tag --remove <name>
hg push

Shows the tags.

hg tags

Make changes

Add the specified files on the next commit.

hg add <file>
hg add

Commit the specified file or directory in version history.

hg commit <file|directory> -m "Message"

Commit all the files and directories in version history.

hg commit -m "Message"

Commit also the added or deleted files in version history.

hg commit --addremove -m "Message"

Revert changes

Discard local changes of a file.

hg revert -C <file>

Discard all local changes.

hg revert --all

Revert last local commit.

hg rollback

Revert changes between 2 commits.

hg diff -r <from_changeset> -r <to_changeset>
hg diff -r <to_changeset> -r <from_changeset> > revert.patch
hg import revert.patch
hg out
hg push

Synchronize changes

Upload all local branch commits.

hg push

Update the working directory with all new commits from the corresponding remote branch.

hg pull
hg update

Update the working directory at the changeset point.

hg update -C <changeset>

Update the working directory at the last changeset.

hg update -C

Show changes

Show changed files in the working directory.

hg status

Show revision history of the repository.

hg log
hg log -l <n>

Show revision history of a file.

hg log --follow <file>

Show current commit changeset.

hg id -i

Merge branches

Merge 2 branches.

hg merge <branch>
hg commit -m "Merge branch into current branch"
hg push

List conflicts.

hg resolve --list

Resolve a conflict.

hg resolve --mark <file>