require: provide a link to a wiki page in addition of suggesting upgrade
The wiki page is intended to describe several solution to the requirement issue.
Some of those solutions does not involve upgrading mercurial. That is very
useful for people that can't easily upgrade they Mercurial in some place.
$ hg init repo
$ cd repo
$ touch foo
$ hg add foo
$ for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11; do
> echo "foo-$i" >> foo
> hg ci -m "foo-$i"
> done
$ for out in "%nof%N" "%%%H" "%b-%R" "%h" "%r" "%m"; do
> echo
> echo "# foo-$out.patch"
> hg export -v -o "foo-$out.patch" 2:tip
> done
# foo-%nof%N.patch
exporting patches:
foo-01of10.patch
foo-02of10.patch
foo-03of10.patch
foo-04of10.patch
foo-05of10.patch
foo-06of10.patch
foo-07of10.patch
foo-08of10.patch
foo-09of10.patch
foo-10of10.patch
# foo-%%%H.patch
exporting patches:
foo-%617188a1c80f869a7b66c85134da88a6fb145f67.patch
foo-%dd41a5ff707a5225204105611ba49cc5c229d55f.patch
foo-%f95a5410f8664b6e1490a4af654e4b7d41a7b321.patch
foo-%4346bcfde53b4d9042489078bcfa9c3e28201db2.patch
foo-%afda8c3a009cc99449a05ad8aa4655648c4ecd34.patch
foo-%35284ce2b6b99c9d2ac66268fe99e68e1974e1aa.patch
foo-%9688c41894e6931305fa7165a37f6568050b4e9b.patch
foo-%747d3c68f8ec44bb35816bfcd59aeb50b9654c2f.patch
foo-%5f17a83f5fbd9414006a5e563eab4c8a00729efd.patch
foo-%f3acbafac161ec68f1598af38f794f28847ca5d3.patch
# foo-%b-%R.patch
exporting patches:
foo-repo-2.patch
foo-repo-3.patch
foo-repo-4.patch
foo-repo-5.patch
foo-repo-6.patch
foo-repo-7.patch
foo-repo-8.patch
foo-repo-9.patch
foo-repo-10.patch
foo-repo-11.patch
# foo-%h.patch
exporting patches:
foo-617188a1c80f.patch
foo-dd41a5ff707a.patch
foo-f95a5410f866.patch
foo-4346bcfde53b.patch
foo-afda8c3a009c.patch
foo-35284ce2b6b9.patch
foo-9688c41894e6.patch
foo-747d3c68f8ec.patch
foo-5f17a83f5fbd.patch
foo-f3acbafac161.patch
# foo-%r.patch
exporting patches:
foo-02.patch
foo-03.patch
foo-04.patch
foo-05.patch
foo-06.patch
foo-07.patch
foo-08.patch
foo-09.patch
foo-10.patch
foo-11.patch
# foo-%m.patch
exporting patches:
foo-foo_2.patch
foo-foo_3.patch
foo-foo_4.patch
foo-foo_5.patch
foo-foo_6.patch
foo-foo_7.patch
foo-foo_8.patch
foo-foo_9.patch
foo-foo_10.patch
foo-foo_11.patch
Doing it again clobbers the files rather than appending:
$ hg export -v -o "foo-%m.patch" 2:3
exporting patches:
foo-foo_2.patch
foo-foo_3.patch
$ grep HG foo-foo_2.patch | wc -l
\s*1 (re)
$ grep HG foo-foo_3.patch | wc -l
\s*1 (re)
Exporting 4 changesets to a file:
$ hg export -o export_internal 1 2 3 4
$ grep HG export_internal | wc -l
\s*4 (re)
Doing it again clobbers the file rather than appending:
$ hg export -o export_internal 1 2 3 4
$ grep HG export_internal | wc -l
\s*4 (re)
Exporting 4 changesets to stdout:
$ hg export 1 2 3 4 | grep HG | wc -l
\s*4 (re)
Exporting revision -2 to a file:
$ hg export -- -2
# HG changeset patch
# User test
# Date 0 0
# Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
# Node ID 5f17a83f5fbd9414006a5e563eab4c8a00729efd
# Parent 747d3c68f8ec44bb35816bfcd59aeb50b9654c2f
foo-10
diff -r 747d3c68f8ec -r 5f17a83f5fbd foo
--- a/foo Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/foo Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@
foo-7
foo-8
foo-9
+foo-10
Checking if only alphanumeric characters are used in the file name (%m option):
$ echo "line" >> foo
$ hg commit -m " !\"#$%&(,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\\]^_\`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~"
$ hg export -v -o %m.patch tip
exporting patch:
____________0123456789_______ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ______abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz____.patch
Catch exporting unknown revisions (especially empty revsets, see issue3353)
$ hg export
# HG changeset patch
# User test
# Date 0 0
# Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
# Node ID 197ecd81a57f760b54f34a58817ad5b04991fa47
# Parent f3acbafac161ec68f1598af38f794f28847ca5d3
!"#$%&(,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~
diff -r f3acbafac161 -r 197ecd81a57f foo
--- a/foo Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/foo Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -10,3 +10,4 @@
foo-9
foo-10
foo-11
+line
$ hg export ""
hg: parse error: empty query
[255]
$ hg export 999
abort: unknown revision '999'!
[255]
$ hg export "not all()"
abort: export requires at least one changeset
[255]
Check for color output
$ echo "[color]" >> $HGRCPATH
$ echo "mode = ansi" >> $HGRCPATH
$ echo "[extensions]" >> $HGRCPATH
$ echo "color=" >> $HGRCPATH
$ hg export --color always --nodates tip
# HG changeset patch
# User test
# Date 0 0
# Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
# Node ID * (glob)
# Parent * (glob)
!"#$%&(,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~
\x1b[0;1mdiff -r f3acbafac161 -r 197ecd81a57f foo\x1b[0m (esc)
\x1b[0;31;1m--- a/foo\x1b[0m (esc)
\x1b[0;32;1m+++ b/foo\x1b[0m (esc)
\x1b[0;35m@@ -10,3 +10,4 @@\x1b[0m (esc)
foo-9
foo-10
foo-11
\x1b[0;32m+line\x1b[0m (esc)
$ cd ..