view mercurial/help/pager.txt @ 42129:232a33a11ce0

pull: deal with locally filtered changeset passed into --rev

Nowadays, it is possible to explicitly pull a remote revision that end up being
hidden locally (eg: obsoleted locally). However before this patch, some
internal processing where crashing trying to resolve a filtered revision.

Without this patches, the pull output result a confusing output:

  $ hg pull ../repo-Bob --rev 956063ac4557
  pulling from ../repo-Bob
  searching for changes
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 2 changesets with 0 changes to 2 files (+1 heads)
  (2 other changesets obsolete on arrival)
  abort: 00changelog.i@956063ac4557828781733b2d5677a351ce856f59: filtered node!

Some Mercurial commands can produce a lot of output, and Mercurial will
attempt to use a pager to make those commands more pleasant.

To set the pager that should be used, set the application variable::

  [pager]
  pager = less -FRX

If no pager is set in the user or repository configuration, Mercurial uses the
environment variable $PAGER. If $PAGER is not set, pager.pager from the default
or system configuration is used. If none of these are set, a default pager will
be used, typically `less` on Unix and `more` on Windows.

.. container:: windows

  On Windows, `more` is not color aware, so using it effectively disables color.
  MSYS and Cygwin shells provide `less` as a pager, which can be configured to
  support ANSI color codes.  See :hg:`help config.color.pagermode` to configure
  the color mode when invoking a pager.

You can disable the pager for certain commands by adding them to the
pager.ignore list::

  [pager]
  ignore = version, help, update

To ignore global commands like :hg:`version` or :hg:`help`, you have
to specify them in your user configuration file.

To control whether the pager is used at all for an individual command,
you can use --pager=<value>:

  - use as needed: `auto`.
  - require the pager: `yes` or `on`.
  - suppress the pager: `no` or `off` (any unrecognized value
    will also work).

To globally turn off all attempts to use a pager, set::

  [ui]
  paginate = never

which will prevent the pager from running.