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tests: more portability fix for the old systems
| author | TK Soh <teekaysoh@yahoo.com> |
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| date | Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:09:24 +0100 |
| parents | 696230e52e4d |
| children | d242719c716e |
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HG(1) ===== Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> NAME ---- hg - Mercurial source code management system SYNOPSIS -------- 'hg' [-v -d -q -y] <command> [command options] [files] DESCRIPTION ----------- The hg(1) command provides a command line interface to the Mercurial system. COMMAND ELEMENTS ---------------- files ...:: indicates one or more filename or relative path filenames; see "FILE NAME PATTERNS" for information on pattern matching path:: indicates a path on the local machine revision:: indicates a changeset which can be specified as a changeset revision number, a tag, or a unique substring of the changeset hash value repository path:: either the pathname of a local repository or the URI of a remote repository. There are two available URI protocols, http:// which is fast and the old-http:// protocol which is much slower but does not require a special server on the web host. include::hg.1.gendoc.txt[] FILE NAME PATTERNS ------------------ Mercurial accepts several notations for identifying one or more files at a time. By default, Mercurial treats filenames as shell-style extended glob patterns. Alternate pattern notations must be specified explicitly. To use a plain path name without any pattern matching, start a name with "path:". These path names must match completely, from the root of the current repository. To use an extended glob, start a name with "glob:". Globs are rooted at the current directory; a glob such as "*.c" will match files ending in ".c" in the current directory only. The supported glob syntax extensions are "**" to match any string across path separators, and "{a,b}" to mean "a or b". To use a Perl/Python regular expression, start a name with "re:". Regexp pattern matching is anchored at the root of the repository. Plain examples: path:foo/bar a name bar in a directory named foo in the root of the repository path:path:name a file or directory named "path:name" Glob examples: glob:*.c any name ending in ".c" in the current directory *.c any name ending in ".c" in the current directory **.c any name ending in ".c" in the current directory, or any subdirectory foo/*.c any name ending in ".c" in the directory foo foo/**.c any name ending in ".c" in the directory foo, or any subdirectory Regexp examples: re:.*\.c$ any name ending in ".c", anywhere in the repository SPECIFYING SINGLE REVISIONS --------------------------- Mercurial accepts several notations for identifying individual revisions. A plain integer is treated as a revision number. Negative integers are treated as offsets from the tip, with -1 denoting the tip. A 40-digit hexadecimal string is treated as a unique revision identifier. A hexadecimal string less than 40 characters long is treated as a unique revision identifier, and referred to as a short-form identifier. A short-form identifier is only valid if it is the prefix of one full-length identifier. Any other string is treated as a tag name, which is a symbolic name associated with a revision identifier. Tag names may not contain the ":" character. The reserved name "tip" is a special tag that always identifies the most recent revision. SPECIFYING MULTIPLE REVISIONS ----------------------------- When Mercurial accepts more than one revision, they may be specified individually, or provided as a continuous range, separated by the ":" character. The syntax of range notation is [BEGIN]:[END], where BEGIN and END are revision identifiers. Both BEGIN and END are optional. If BEGIN is not specified, it defaults to revision number 0. If END is not specified, it defaults to the tip. The range ":" thus means "all revisions". If BEGIN is greater than END, revisions are treated in reverse order. A range acts as a closed interval. This means that a range of 3:5 gives 3, 4 and 5. Similarly, a range of 4:2 gives 4, 3, and 2. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES --------------------- HGEDITOR:: This is the name of the editor to use when committing. Defaults to the value of EDITOR. (deprecated, use .hgrc) HGMERGE:: An executable to use for resolving merge conflicts. The program will be executed with three arguments: local file, remote file, ancestor file. The default program is "hgmerge", which is a shell script provided by Mercurial with some sensible defaults. (deprecated, use .hgrc) HGRCPATH:: A list of files or directories to search for hgrc files. Item separator is ":" on Unix, ";" on Windows. If HGRCPATH is not set, platform default search path is used. If empty, only .hg/hgrc of current repository is read. For each element in path, if a directory, all entries in directory ending with ".rc" are added to path. Else, element itself is added to path. HGUSER:: This is the string used for the author of a commit. (deprecated, use .hgrc) EMAIL:: If HGUSER is not set, this will be used as the author for a commit. LOGNAME:: If neither HGUSER nor EMAIL is set, LOGNAME will be used (with '@hostname' appended) as the author value for a commit. EDITOR:: This is the name of the editor used in the hgmerge script. It will be used for commit messages if HGEDITOR isn't set. Defaults to 'vi'. PYTHONPATH:: This is used by Python to find imported modules and may need to be set appropriately if Mercurial is not installed system-wide. FILES ----- .hgignore:: This file contains regular expressions (one per line) that describe file names that should be ignored by hg. .hgtags:: This file contains changeset hash values and text tag names (one of each separated by spaces) that correspond to tagged versions of the repository contents. /etc/mercurial/hgrc, $HOME/.hgrc, .hg/hgrc:: This file contains defaults and configuration. Values in .hg/hgrc override those in $HOME/.hgrc, and these override settings made in the global /etc/mercurial/hgrc configuration. See hgrc(5) for details of the contents and format of these files. BUGS ---- Probably lots, please post them to the mailing list (See Resources below) when you find them. SEE ALSO -------- hgrc(5) AUTHOR ------ Written by Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> RESOURCES --------- http://selenic.com/mercurial[Main Web Site] http://www.serpentine.com/mercurial[Wiki site] http://selenic.com/hg[Source code repository] http://selenic.com/mailman/listinfo/mercurial[Mailing list] COPYING ------- Copyright \(C) 2005 Matt Mackall. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).