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dispatch: do not close the request repo Closing here means we've closed the repo passed to us in the request, which is not our responsibility. This is essential for bundlerepo, and possibly other localrepository subclasses who do something in their close().
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Mercurial source code management system
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:Author:         Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
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:Organization:   Mercurial
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:Manual section: 1
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:Manual group:   Mercurial Manual
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.. contents::
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   :backlinks: top
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   :class: htmlonly
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   :depth: 1
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Synopsis
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**hg** *command* [*option*]... [*argument*]...
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Description
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The **hg** command provides a command line interface to the Mercurial
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system.
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Command Elements
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files...
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    indicates one or more filename or relative path filenames; see
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    `File Name Patterns`_ for information on pattern matching
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path
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    indicates a path on the local machine
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revision
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    indicates a changeset which can be specified as a changeset
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    revision number, a tag, or a unique substring of the changeset
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    hash value
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repository path
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    either the pathname of a local repository or the URI of a remote
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    repository.
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.. include:: hg.1.gendoc.txt
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Files
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``.hgignore``
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    This file contains regular expressions (one per line) that
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    describe file names that should be ignored by **hg**. For details,
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    see |hgignore(5)|_.
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``.hgtags``
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    This file contains changeset hash values and text tag names (one
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    of each separated by spaces) that correspond to tagged versions of
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    the repository contents.
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``/etc/mercurial/hgrc``, ``$HOME/.hgrc``, ``.hg/hgrc``
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    This file contains defaults and configuration. Values in
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    ``.hg/hgrc`` override those in ``$HOME/.hgrc``, and these override
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    settings made in the global ``/etc/mercurial/hgrc`` configuration.
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    See |hgrc(5)|_ for details of the contents and format of these
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    files.
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Some commands (e.g. revert) produce backup files ending in ``.orig``,
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if the ``.orig`` file already exists and is not tracked by Mercurial,
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it will be overwritten.
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Bugs
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Probably lots, please post them to the mailing list (see Resources_
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below) when you find them.
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See Also
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|hgignore(5)|_, |hgrc(5)|_
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Author
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Written by Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
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Main Web Site: http://mercurial.selenic.com/
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Source code repository: http://selenic.com/hg
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Mailing list: http://selenic.com/mailman/listinfo/mercurial
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Copying
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Copyright (C) 2005-2010 Matt Mackall.
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Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General
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Public License version 2 or any later version.
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.. include:: common.txt