doc/README
author Durham Goode <durham@fb.com>
Fri, 06 Feb 2015 11:04:55 -0800
changeset 24189 8b4b9ee6001a
parent 9419 3516a4e877c1
permissions -rw-r--r--
log: make -fr show complete history from the given revs Right now it's very obtuse to show the history of a particular rev (hg log -r 'reverse(::foo)'). This changes the -f option to make it follow history for the revs specified by -r. The current -f -r behavior is to limit the result of -r to only the commits that are ancestors of the current working copy. Changing this is a bit of a BC break, but the old behavior is A) rare, B) easy to emulate (& ::.), and C) currently undefined. The new behavior is frequently requested enough that I think the change is worth it.

Mercurial's documentation is kept in reStructuredText format, which is
a simple plain text format that's easy to read and edit:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html

It's also convertible to a variety of other formats including standard
UNIX man page format and HTML. You'll need to install Docutils:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/

Use the Makefile in this directory to generate the man and HTML pages.