mercurial/help/urls.txt
author Kyle Lippincott <spectral@google.com>
Thu, 20 Jun 2019 11:40:47 -0700
changeset 42565 4764e8436b2a
parent 36365 5da7b8cb6f75
permissions -rw-r--r--
filemerge: make last line of prompts <40 english chars (issue6158) I've chosen <40 as the target so that other languages that may have a 2x blowup in character count can still have a chance to fit into an 80 column screen. Previously, we would show a prompt like: ``` keep (l)ocal [dest], take (o)ther [source], or leave (u)nresolved for some/potentially/really/long/path? ``` On at least some systems, if readline was in use then the last line of the prompt would be wrapped strangely if it couldn't fit entirely on one line. This strange wrapping may be just a carriage return without a line feed, overwriting the beginning of the line; example (100 columns wide, 65 character filename, and yes there's 10 spaces on the end, I assume this is to handle the user inputting longest word we provide as an option, "unresolved"): ``` ng/dir/name/that/does/not/work/well/with/readline/file.txt? ave (u)nresolved for some/lon ``` In some cases it may partially wrap onto the next line, but still be missing earlier parts in the line, such as below (60 columns wide, 65 character filename): ``` rev], or leave (u)nresolved for some/long/dir/name/that/do s/not/work/well/with/readline/file.txt? ``` With this fix, this looks like this on a 60 column screen: ``` tool vim_with_markers (for pattern some/long/dir/name/that/d oes/not/work/well/with/readline/file.txt) can't handle binar y tool meld can't handle binary tool vim_with_markers can't handle binary tool internal:merge3 can't handle binary tool merge can't handle binary no tool found to merge some/long/dir/name/that/does/not/work /well/with/readline/file.txt file 'some/long/dir/name/that/does/not/work/well/with/readli ne/file.txt' needs to be resolved. You can keep (l)ocal [working copy], take (o)ther [merge rev ], or leave (u)nresolved. What do you want to do? ``` Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D6562

Valid URLs are of the form::

  local/filesystem/path[#revision]
  file://local/filesystem/path[#revision]
  http://[user[:pass]@]host[:port]/[path][#revision]
  https://[user[:pass]@]host[:port]/[path][#revision]
  ssh://[user@]host[:port]/[path][#revision]

Paths in the local filesystem can either point to Mercurial
repositories or to bundle files (as created by :hg:`bundle` or
:hg:`incoming --bundle`). See also :hg:`help paths`.

An optional identifier after # indicates a particular branch, tag, or
changeset to use from the remote repository. See also :hg:`help
revisions`.

Some features, such as pushing to http:// and https:// URLs are only
possible if the feature is explicitly enabled on the remote Mercurial
server.

Note that the security of HTTPS URLs depends on proper configuration of
web.cacerts.

Some notes about using SSH with Mercurial:

- SSH requires an accessible shell account on the destination machine
  and a copy of hg in the remote path or specified with remotecmd.
- path is relative to the remote user's home directory by default. Use
  an extra slash at the start of a path to specify an absolute path::

    ssh://example.com//tmp/repository

- Mercurial doesn't use its own compression via SSH; the right thing
  to do is to configure it in your ~/.ssh/config, e.g.::

    Host *.mylocalnetwork.example.com
      Compression no
    Host *
      Compression yes

  Alternatively specify "ssh -C" as your ssh command in your
  configuration file or with the --ssh command line option.

These URLs can all be stored in your configuration file with path
aliases under the [paths] section like so::

  [paths]
  alias1 = URL1
  alias2 = URL2
  ...

You can then use the alias for any command that uses a URL (for
example :hg:`pull alias1` will be treated as :hg:`pull URL1`).

Two path aliases are special because they are used as defaults when
you do not provide the URL to a command:

default:
  When you create a repository with hg clone, the clone command saves
  the location of the source repository as the new repository's
  'default' path. This is then used when you omit path from push- and
  pull-like commands (including incoming and outgoing).

default-push:
  The push command will look for a path named 'default-push', and
  prefer it over 'default' if both are defined.