Mercurial > hg
changeset 25650:e43e7d58a65d
import: cross-reference ui.patch option from `hg help import`
This is a fairly obscure patch option. It seems reasonable to expose
it a bit more from the help text for `hg import`.
| author | Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@octave.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Tue, 23 Jun 2015 13:57:39 -0400 |
| parents | e90e031b3016 |
| children | 125c11ec7bee |
| files | mercurial/commands.py |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/mercurial/commands.py Tue Jun 23 13:47:42 2015 -0400 +++ b/mercurial/commands.py Tue Jun 23 13:57:39 2015 -0400 @@ -4173,6 +4173,11 @@ cleanly, :hg:`import --partial` will create an empty changeset, importing only the patch metadata. + It is possible to use external patch programs to perform the patch + by setting the ``ui.patch`` configuration option. + See :hg:`help config` for more information about configuration + files and how to use this option. + To read a patch from standard input, use "-" as the patch name. If a URL is specified, the patch will be downloaded from it. See :hg:`help dates` for a list of formats valid for -d/--date. @@ -4198,6 +4203,11 @@ hg import --exact proposed-fix.patch + - use an external tool to apply a patch which is too fuzzy for + the default internal tool. + + hg import --config ui.patch="patch --merge" fuzzy.patch + Returns 0 on success, 1 on partial success (see --partial). """