help/revisions.txt
author Adrian Buehlmann <adrian@cadifra.com>
Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:40:55 +0200
changeset 9659 f53c549237ca
parent 9540 cad36e496640
permissions -rw-r--r--
hgrc.5.txt: mention hgrc categories with higher precedence first Reordering the FILES section accordingly. The previous ordering of categories might have been nice from the viewpoint of a site admin doing an initial install, but presenting a higher-precedence-first ordering is more relevant and natural for the average end user, since he will most likely resort to editing rc files in the order of their precedence, overriding whatever "sane" defaults are coming from more general files. Note that this patch does not change the texts, it just moves them. So, whatever bugs, grammar errors, or typos may have been in the texts before this patch: they are still there. On purpose. Because this patch here does not want to reword texts while moving them.

Mercurial supports several ways to specify individual revisions.

A plain integer is treated as a revision number. Negative integers are
treated as sequential offsets from the tip, with -1 denoting the tip,
-2 denoting the revision prior to the tip, and so forth.

A 40-digit hexadecimal string is treated as a unique revision
identifier.

A hexadecimal string less than 40 characters long is treated as a
unique revision identifier and is referred to as a short-form
identifier. A short-form identifier is only valid if it is the prefix
of exactly one full-length identifier.

Any other string is treated as a tag or branch name. A tag name is a
symbolic name associated with a revision identifier. A branch name
denotes the tipmost revision of that branch. Tag and branch names must
not contain the ":" character.

The reserved name "tip" is a special tag that always identifies the
most recent revision.

The reserved name "null" indicates the null revision. This is the
revision of an empty repository, and the parent of revision 0.

The reserved name "." indicates the working directory parent. If no
working directory is checked out, it is equivalent to null. If an
uncommitted merge is in progress, "." is the revision of the first
parent.