mercurial

What are some good Mercurial GUI clients for OS X?

question says it all. I really like the Brotherbard GitX fork - is there something along the same lines for Hg? ...

Mercurial copy patch to repository

Hi, I'm using Mercurial repository and I have a patch in 'git' format and I wanted to know how I can apply that patch to my current repository which is Local. Thanks ...

mercurial: how to synchronize mq patches from a master repo as mq patches to a set of clone repos

I have to run a dozen of different build tests on a code base maintained in a mercurial repository. I don't want to run serially these tests on same repository because they modify a set of common files and I want to run them in parallel on different machines. Also, after all tests are run I want to have access to latest test results from...

Cant clone Bitbucket repo via https

Cant clone Bitbucket repo via https on Debian. I always get error: abort: authorization failed Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.4.1), Python 2.5.2 Thru ssh and http(w/o pass) work fine ...

Mercurial API and Extensions resources

I want to write extensions for Mercurial. What are good resources such as tutorials, guides, API reference or maybe even a existing extension that is well commented and easy to lean from the source. So far, I have only found the short MercurialApi and WritingExtensions wiki pages. ...

Mercurial repository usage with binary files for building setup files

I have an existing Mercurial repository for a C++ application in a small corporate environment. I asked a co-worker to add the setup script to the repository and he added all of the dependency binaries, PDFs, and executable to the repository under an Install directory. I dislike having the binaries and dependencies in the same repository...

.hgignore directory "_notes" throughout repository tree?

I want to ignore all directories "_notes" throughout a repository. _notes is generated by dreamweaver and is not part of the project itself, but these directories are scattered throughout the project. Somehow ^_notes$ is not doing the job in .hgignore ... Do I have to direct .hgignore to each and every directory "_notes" or does it do i...

How to merge after reverting in mercurial?

I have had a bad merge. Now I want to start the merge all over again. I did a revert just before the merge. Now when I'm trying to add the bundle, I'm having the message and it can no more locate the changes. What is wrong? Why isn't it finding any change? c:\Documents and Settings\Desktop\New Folder\test_rev94_to_tip_hg\test_rev94_t...

Migrating from CVS to Mercurial - how to handle cross-repo symbolic links?

I have a project that is stored in CVS as numerous modules/repositories. In several of the modules the CVS tree has symbolic links to the files in another tree. For example, the internal support tools have links to binary files (DLL, EXE) that are created and stored in the C# module. In all cases, the files are modified only in in the...

Mercurial Hg Clone fails on C# project with GUID

UPDATE: In trying to replicate this problem one more time to answer your questions I could not! I can only conclude that my initial setup of Mercurial was problematic and/or possibly I was trying to checkin a build that failed compilation before the checkin. Sigh! Thank you so very much for your help. I gave credit for the help on how to...

How to serve my local Mercurial repository?

I created a repository with TortoiseHg. Is it possible to share it with other machines? Or do I need to install another application? ...

Cheat sheet for mercurial's hgrc conf file?

I wonder if there are good cheat sheets for all the options you can set in mercurial's hgrc file? I cant find any. ...

folder structure in a mercurial repo?

I have just switched from svn to mercurial and have read some tutorials about it. I've still got some confusions that i hope you could help me to sort out. I wonder if I have understood the folder structure in a mercurial repo right. In a svn repo I usually have these folders: svn: branches (branches/chat, branches/new_login etc) tags ...

Is it a bad idea to hg update when your working copy has changes?

Seems like it would be better if you did commit followed by merge. I'm a little surprised update'ing is even allowed when your working copy has changes. Is allowing updates in such cases to avoid having commits that have two parents, which result from a merge? ...

How to handle merges with hgsubversion?

I am trying to contribute to a project that uses Subversion. I used Mercurial and its hgsubversion extension to clone the repo. My work takes place on a feature branch. How do I keep the feature branch up to date with stuff that happens on the default branch (hg speak) aka the trunk (svn speak)? So I used hg up feature to update to t...

How to move a Mercurial repository created on a local PC to a web server?

I have created and committed to Mercurial repository that was created on my local drive. I now have a remote Windows 2003 web server setup to serve repositories via hgwebdir.cgi. How do I move the locally created repository to the web server? It looks like an ftp of the .hg folder on the local drive to the remote web server does the tr...

How to create a Mercurial repository on a remote IIS web server

I have a Windows Server 2003 running Mercurial's hgwebdir.cgi to serve repositories. Push/Pull etc is working as expected for existing repositories. Currently I'm using remote desktop If I need a new repository on the server. Is there a better way to do it? Command line, web interface, cgi? ...

How do I get changes to propagate to all subrepos in Mercurial?

I have recently switched from Subversion to Mercurial for source control and in doing so have split up one repository into several. I used subrepos to manage the dependencies between repositories. The problem is that pull is not suprepo aware so I have to go into each subrepo and pull changes in order to update a repository. Is there a b...

Mercurial website VC over HTTP or FTP - no SSH

I would like to have a mercurial repository on my website so that I can push/pull as I make updates to it, but I do not have SSH access, only HTTP or FTP. Can this be done? I suspect no, since I would not be able to run hg on the server, so I would only be able to clone it. ...

Mercurial win instal: no ini files

I installed mercurial 1.5.1 on win xp but the files listed in hg help config, were not created. Namely: %USERPROFILE%.hgrc (is that a valid windows file name?) %USERPROFILE%\Mercurial.ini \Mercurial\Mercurial.ini C:\Mercurial\Mercurial.ini (no such directory altogether) %HOME%.hgrc (what is this directory) %HOME%\Mercurial.ini HKEY_LOC...