README.rst
author Mads Kiilerich <mads@kiilerich.com>
Sun, 14 Oct 2018 17:08:18 +0200
changeset 40499 3c0d5016b2be
parent 34579 1b59287a1cfa
child 46769 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
graft: introduce --base option for using custom base revision while merging The graft command usually performs an internal merge of the current parent revision with the graft revision, using p1 of the grafted revision as base for the merge. As a trivial extension of this, we introduce the --base option to allow for using another base revision. This can be used as a building block for grafting and collapsing multiple changesets at once, or for grafting the resulting change from a merge as a single simple change. (This is kind of similar to backout --parent ... only different: this graft base must be an ancestor, but is usually *not* a parent.) This is probably an advanced use case, and we do thus not show it in the non-verbose help.

Mercurial
=========

Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install::

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing::

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.