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share: replace the bookmarks.shared file with an entry on a new "shared" file
cd79fb4d75fd introduced a way to share bookmarks. When a repository share that
shares bookmarks was created, a .hg/bookmarks.shared file was created to mark
the repository share as one that shares its bookmarks.
We have plans to introduce other levels of sharing, including a "full share"
mode. Rather than creating a new ".shared" file for each new thing that we may
want to share It seems better to create a single "shared" file that will list
what is shared for a given shared repository. This should make it much easier
to get a list of everything that is shared by a given shared repository.
The shared file contains a list of shared "items" (such as bookmarks). Each
shared "item" is added as a new line in the file. For now the only possible
entry in the file is "bookmarks".
author | Angel Ezquerra <angel.ezquerra@gmail.com> |
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date | Sun, 11 Jan 2015 16:20:15 +0100 |
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Mercurial's default format for showing changes between two versions of a file is compatible with the unified format of GNU diff, which can be used by GNU patch and many other standard tools. While this standard format is often enough, it does not encode the following information: - executable status and other permission bits - copy or rename information - changes in binary files - creation or deletion of empty files Mercurial also supports the extended diff format from the git VCS which addresses these limitations. The git diff format is not produced by default because a few widespread tools still do not understand this format. This means that when generating diffs from a Mercurial repository (e.g. with :hg:`export`), you should be careful about things like file copies and renames or other things mentioned above, because when applying a standard diff to a different repository, this extra information is lost. Mercurial's internal operations (like push and pull) are not affected by this, because they use an internal binary format for communicating changes. To make Mercurial produce the git extended diff format, use the --git option available for many commands, or set 'git = True' in the [diff] section of your configuration file. You do not need to set this option when importing diffs in this format or using them in the mq extension.