Use the pager given by the environment to display long output
Unix systems usually have a PAGER environment variable set.
If it is set, mercurial will use the pager application to display
output.
Two configuration variables are available to influence the behaviour of the
pager. ui.pager sets the pager application. The pager is
only used if ui.usepager is true. By default ui.usepager is disabled.
#!/bin/sh
hg init
touch a
hg add a
hg commit -m "Added a" -d "1000000 0"
touch main
hg add main
hg commit -m "Added main" -d "1000000 0"
hg checkout 0
echo Main should be gone
ls
touch side1
hg add side1
hg commit -m "Added side1" -d "1000000 0"
touch side2
hg add side2
hg commit -m "Added side2" -d "1000000 0"
hg log
echo Should have two heads, side2 and main
hg heads
echo Should show "a side1 side2"
ls
hg update --debug -C 1
echo Should only show "a main"
ls