view mercurial/help/hg.1.txt @ 34144:91f0677dc920 stable

repair: preserve phase also when not using generaldelta (issue5678)

It seems like we used to pick the oldest possible version of the
changegroup to use for bundles created by the repair module (used
e.g. by "hg strip" and for temporary bundles by "hg rebase"). I tried
to preserve that behavior when I created the changegroup.safeversion()
method in 3b2ac2115464 (changegroup: introduce safeversion(),
2016-01-19).

However, we have recently chagned our minds and decided that these
commands are only used locally and downgrades are unlikely. That
decicion allowed us to start adding obsmarker and phase information to
these bundles. However, as the bug report shows, it means we get
different behavior e.g. when generaldelta is not enabled (because when
it was enabled, it forced us to use bundle2). The commit that actually
caused the reported bug was 8e3021fd1a44 (strip: include phases in
bundle (BC), 2017-06-15).

So, since we now depend on having more information in the bundles,
let's make sure we instead pick the newest possible changegroup
version.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D715

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 hg
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Mercurial source code management system
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:Author:         Matt Mackall <[e-mail]>
:Organization:   Mercurial
:Manual section: 1
:Manual group:   Mercurial Manual

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   :depth: 1


Synopsis
""""""""
**hg** *command* [*option*]... [*argument*]...

Description
"""""""""""
The **hg** command provides a command line interface to the Mercurial
system.

Command Elements
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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.

.. include:: hg.1.gendoc.txt

Files
"""""

``/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.

``.hgignore``
    This file contains regular expressions (one per line) that
    describe file names that should be ignored by **hg**. For details,
    see |hgignore(5)|_.

``.hgsub``
    This file defines the locations of all subrepositories, and
    tells where the subrepository checkouts came from. For details, see
    :hg:`help subrepos`.

``.hgsubstate``
    This file is where Mercurial stores all nested repository states. *NB: This
    file should not be edited manually.*

``.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. The file content is encoded using UTF-8.

``.hg/last-message.txt``
    This file is used by :hg:`commit` to store a backup of the commit message
    in case the commit fails.

``.hg/localtags``
    This file can be used to define local tags which are not shared among
    repositories. The file format is the same as for ``.hgtags``, but it is
    encoded using the local system encoding.

Some commands (e.g. revert) produce backup files ending in ``.orig``,
if the ``.orig`` file already exists and is not tracked by Mercurial,
it will be overwritten.

Bugs
""""
Probably lots, please post them to the mailing list (see Resources_
below) when you find them.

See Also
""""""""
|hgignore(5)|_, |hgrc(5)|_

Author
""""""
Written by Matt Mackall <[e-mail]>

Resources
"""""""""
Main Web Site: https://mercurial-scm.org/

Source code repository: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg

Mailing list: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial/

Copying
"""""""
Copyright (C) 2005-2017 Matt Mackall.
Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General
Public License version 2 or any later version.

.. include:: common.txt