doc/hg.1.txt
author Brodie Rao <brodie@bitheap.org>
Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:22:19 -0500
changeset 10827 b66388f6adfa
parent 10263 25e572394f5c
child 12776 4f4eddee254d
permissions -rw-r--r--
color: don't split colors across lines (which confuses less -R) Currently, less -R doesn't support colors spanning multiple lines; only the first line will be colorized. Instead of allowing colors to span multiple lines, the color extension now applies colors to each line it receives, even when ui.write() is given multiple lines in one call.

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 hg
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Mercurial source code management system
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:Author:         Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
:Organization:   Mercurial
:Manual section: 1
:Manual group:   Mercurial Manual

.. contents::
   :backlinks: top
   :class: htmlonly


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

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

``.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.

``/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.

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

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

Author
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Written by Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>

Resources
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Main Web Site: http://mercurial.selenic.com/

Source code repository: http://selenic.com/hg

Mailing list: http://selenic.com/mailman/listinfo/mercurial

Copying
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Copyright (C) 2005-2010 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