doc/hg.1.txt
author Matt Harbison <matt_harbison@yahoo.com>
Sun, 14 Oct 2012 15:10:13 -0400
changeset 17824 221c9c3146eb
parent 17267 979b107eaea2
child 18960 170fc0949fb6
permissions -rw-r--r--
largefiles: always create the cache and standin directories when cloning The standin matcher only works if the .hglf directory exists (and it won't exist if 'clone -U' is used, unless --all-largefiles is also specified). Since not even 'update -r null' will get rid of the standin directory, this ensures that the standin directory always exists if the repo has the 'largefiles' requirement. This requirement is only set after a largefile is committed, so these directories will not be created for repos that have the extension enabled but have not committed a largefile. With the standin directory in place, 'lfconvert --to-normal' will now be able to download the required largefiles when converting a repo that was created with 'clone -U', and whose files are not in the usercache. The downloadlfiles command could probably be put inside the 'largefiles' requirement conditional too, but given that the user specified --all-largefiles, there is likely an expectation to print out the number of largefiles downloaded, even if it is 0.

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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::
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   :class: htmlonly
   :depth: 1


Synopsis
""""""""
**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
"""""

``/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
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|hgignore(5)|_, |hgrc(5)|_

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

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

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

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

Copying
"""""""
Copyright (C) 2005-2012 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