sapling/tests/test-help.t
Jun Wu fbccd19ed7 patchbomb: remove the extension
Summary:
`test-patchbomb.t` uses named branches and does not look simple to fix.
We don't use email patches internally, and it's not hard to write scripts
around `hg export`. Therefore drop the extension and its tests.

Reviewed By: singhsrb

Differential Revision: D13978577

fbshipit-source-id: 19867ae68c19c996bfce064eb2234705939db9ea
2019-02-12 21:45:10 -08:00

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#require no-fsmonitor
Short help:
$ hg
Mercurial Distributed SCM
hg COMMAND [OPTIONS]
These are some common Mercurial commands. Use 'hg help commands' to list all
commands, and 'hg help COMMAND' to get help on a specific command.
Get the latest commits from the server:
pull pull changes from the specified source
View commits:
show show commit in detail
diff show differences between commits
Check out a commit:
checkout check out a specific commit
Work with your checkout:
status list files with pending changes
add start tracking the specified files
remove delete the specified tracked files
forget stop tracking the specified files
revert change the specified files to match a commit
Commit changes and modify commits:
commit save all pending changes or specified files in a new commit
Rearrange commits:
graft copy commits from a different location
Undo changes:
uncommit uncommit part or all of the current commit
Other commands:
config show config settings
grep search for a pattern in tracked files in the working directory
Additional help topics:
filesets specifying files by their characteristics
glossary common terms
patterns specifying files by file name pattern
revisions specifying commits
templating customizing output with templates
$ hg -q
Mercurial Distributed SCM
hg COMMAND [OPTIONS]
These are some common Mercurial commands. Use 'hg help commands' to list all
commands, and 'hg help COMMAND' to get help on a specific command.
Get the latest commits from the server:
pull pull changes from the specified source
View commits:
show show commit in detail
diff show differences between commits
Check out a commit:
checkout check out a specific commit
Work with your checkout:
status list files with pending changes
add start tracking the specified files
remove delete the specified tracked files
forget stop tracking the specified files
revert change the specified files to match a commit
Commit changes and modify commits:
commit save all pending changes or specified files in a new commit
Rearrange commits:
graft copy commits from a different location
Undo changes:
uncommit uncommit part or all of the current commit
Other commands:
config show config settings
grep search for a pattern in tracked files in the working directory
Additional help topics:
filesets specifying files by their characteristics
glossary common terms
patterns specifying files by file name pattern
revisions specifying commits
templating customizing output with templates
$ hg help
Mercurial Distributed SCM
hg COMMAND [OPTIONS]
These are some common Mercurial commands. Use 'hg help commands' to list all
commands, and 'hg help COMMAND' to get help on a specific command.
Get the latest commits from the server:
pull pull changes from the specified source
View commits:
show show commit in detail
diff show differences between commits
Check out a commit:
checkout check out a specific commit
Work with your checkout:
status list files with pending changes
add start tracking the specified files
remove delete the specified tracked files
forget stop tracking the specified files
revert change the specified files to match a commit
Commit changes and modify commits:
commit save all pending changes or specified files in a new commit
Rearrange commits:
graft copy commits from a different location
Undo changes:
uncommit uncommit part or all of the current commit
Other commands:
config show config settings
grep search for a pattern in tracked files in the working directory
Additional help topics:
filesets specifying files by their characteristics
glossary common terms
patterns specifying files by file name pattern
revisions specifying commits
templating customizing output with templates
$ hg -q help
Mercurial Distributed SCM
hg COMMAND [OPTIONS]
These are some common Mercurial commands. Use 'hg help commands' to list all
commands, and 'hg help COMMAND' to get help on a specific command.
Get the latest commits from the server:
pull pull changes from the specified source
View commits:
show show commit in detail
diff show differences between commits
Check out a commit:
checkout check out a specific commit
Work with your checkout:
status list files with pending changes
add start tracking the specified files
remove delete the specified tracked files
forget stop tracking the specified files
revert change the specified files to match a commit
Commit changes and modify commits:
commit save all pending changes or specified files in a new commit
Rearrange commits:
graft copy commits from a different location
Undo changes:
uncommit uncommit part or all of the current commit
Other commands:
config show config settings
grep search for a pattern in tracked files in the working directory
Additional help topics:
filesets specifying files by their characteristics
glossary common terms
patterns specifying files by file name pattern
revisions specifying commits
templating customizing output with templates
Test extension help:
$ hg help extensions --config extensions.rebase= --config extensions.children=
Using Additional Features
"""""""""""""""""""""""""
Mercurial has the ability to add new features through the use of
extensions. Extensions may add new commands, add options to existing
commands, change the default behavior of commands, or implement hooks.
To enable the "foo" extension, either shipped with Mercurial or in the
Python search path, create an entry for it in your configuration file,
like this:
[extensions]
foo =
You may also specify the full path to an extension:
[extensions]
myfeature = ~/.hgext/myfeature.py
See 'hg help config' for more information on configuration files.
Extensions are not loaded by default for a variety of reasons: they can
increase startup overhead; they may be meant for advanced usage only; they
may provide potentially dangerous abilities (such as letting you destroy
or modify history); they might not be ready for prime time; or they may
alter some usual behaviors of stock Mercurial. It is thus up to the user
to activate extensions as needed.
To explicitly disable an extension enabled in a configuration file of
broader scope, prepend its path with !:
[extensions]
# disabling extension bar residing in /path/to/extension/bar.py
bar = !/path/to/extension/bar.py
# ditto, but no path was supplied for extension baz
baz = !
Enabled extensions:
conflictinfo
debugshell a python shell with repo, changelog & manifest objects
errorredirect
redirect error message
githelp try mapping git commands to Mercurial commands
mergedriver custom merge drivers for autoresolved files
progressfile allows users to have JSON progress bar information written
to a path
rebase command to move sets of revisions to a different ancestor
simplecache
Disabled extensions:
absorb apply working directory changes to changesets
amend extends the existing commit amend functionality
arcdiff (no help text available)
blackbox log repository events to a blackbox for debugging
catnotate (no help text available)
checkmessagehook
(no help text available)
chistedit
churn command to display statistics about repository history
cleanobsstore
clienttelemetry
provide information about the client in server telemetry
clonebundles advertise pre-generated bundles to seed clones
commitcloud sync changesets via the cloud
convert import revisions from foreign VCS repositories into
Mercurial
copytrace extension that does copytracing fast
crdump (no help text available)
debugcommitmessage
(no help text available)
dialect replace terms with more widely used equivalents
directaccess This extension provides direct access
dirsync
disablesymlinks
disables symlink support when enabled
drop drop specified changeset from the stack
eden accelerated hg functionality in Eden checkouts (eden !)
edrecord (no help text available)
eol automatically manage newlines in repository files
extdiff command to allow external programs to compare revisions
extorder
extutil (no help text available)
fastannotate yet another annotate implementation that might be faster
fastlog
fastmanifest a treemanifest disk cache for speeding up manifest
comparison
fbconduit (no help text available)
fbhistedit extends the existing histedit functionality
fixcorrupt (no help text available)
generic_bisect
(no help text available)
gitlookup extension that will look up hashes from an hg-git map file
over the wire.
gitrevset map a git hash to a Mercurial hash:
globalrevs extension for providing strictly increasing revision
numbers
gpg commands to sign and verify changesets
grepdiff (no help text available)
grpcheck check if the user is in specified groups
hgevents publishes state-enter and state-leave events to Watchman
hggit push and pull from a Git server
hgsql sync hg repos with MySQL
hgsubversion integration with Subversion repositories
hiddenerror configurable error messages for accessing hidden changesets
highlight syntax highlighting for hgweb (requires Pygments)
histedit interactive history editing
infinitepush store draft commits in the cloud
infinitepushbackup
back up draft commits in the cloud
interactiveui
(no help text available)
linkrevcache a simple caching layer to speed up _adjustlinkrev
logginghelper
this extension logs different pieces of information that
will be used
lz4revlog store revlog deltas using lz4 compression
morecolors make more output colorful
morestatus make status give a bit more context
myparent
nointerrupt warns but doesn't exit when the user first hits Ctrl+C
ownercheck prevent operations on repos not owned by the current user
p4fastimport p4fastimport - A fast importer from Perforce to Mercurial
perfsuite (no help text available)
phabdiff (no help text available)
phabstatus (no help text available)
phrevset provides support for Phabricator revsets
pullcreatemarkers
(no help text available)
purge command to delete untracked files from the working
directory
pushrebase rebases commits during push
rage upload useful diagnostics and give instructions for asking
for help
remotefilelog
minimize and speed up large repositories
remotenames mercurial extension for improving client/server workflows
repogenerator
(no help text available)
reset reset the active bookmark and working copy to a desired
revision
sampling (no help text available)
schemes extend schemes with shortcuts to repository swarms
share share a common history between several working directories
shelve save and restore changes to the working directory
sigtrace sigtrace - dump stack and memory traces on signal
smartlog command to display a relevant subgraph
sparse allow sparse checkouts of the working directory
sshaskpass ssh-askpass implementation that works with chg
stablerev provide a way to expose the "stable" commit via a revset
stat (no help text available)
strip strip changesets and their descendants from history
transplant command to transplant changesets from another branch
treemanifest
tweakdefaults
user friendly defaults
undo (no help text available)
whereami (no help text available)
win32mbcs allow the use of MBCS paths with problematic encodings
Verify that extension keywords appear in help templates
$ hg help --config extensions.transplant= templating|grep transplant > /dev/null
Normal help for add
$ hg add -h
hg add [OPTION]... [FILE]...
start tracking the specified files
Schedule files to be version controlled and added to the repository.
The files will be added to the repository at the next commit. To undo an
add before that, see 'hg forget'.
If no names are given, add all files to the repository (except files
matching ".hgignore").
Returns 0 if all files are successfully added.
Options ([+] can be repeated):
-I --include PATTERN [+] include names matching the given patterns
-X --exclude PATTERN [+] exclude names matching the given patterns
-S --subrepos recurse into subrepositories
-n --dry-run do not perform actions, just print output
(some details hidden, use --verbose to show complete help)
Verbose help for add
$ hg add -hv
hg add [OPTION]... [FILE]...
start tracking the specified files
Schedule files to be version controlled and added to the repository.
The files will be added to the repository at the next commit. To undo an
add before that, see 'hg forget'.
If no names are given, add all files to the repository (except files
matching ".hgignore").
Examples:
- New (unknown) files are added automatically by 'hg add':
$ ls
foo.c
$ hg status
? foo.c
$ hg add
adding foo.c
$ hg status
A foo.c
- Specific files to be added can be specified:
$ ls
bar.c foo.c
$ hg status
? bar.c
? foo.c
$ hg add bar.c
$ hg status
A bar.c
? foo.c
Returns 0 if all files are successfully added.
Options ([+] can be repeated):
-I --include PATTERN [+] include names matching the given patterns
-X --exclude PATTERN [+] exclude names matching the given patterns
-S --subrepos recurse into subrepositories
-n --dry-run do not perform actions, just print output
Global options ([+] can be repeated):
-R --repository REPO repository root directory or name of overlay bundle
file
--cwd DIR change working directory
-y --noninteractive do not prompt, automatically pick the first choice
for all prompts
-q --quiet suppress output
-v --verbose enable additional output
--color TYPE when to colorize (boolean, always, auto, never, or
debug)
--config CONFIG [+] set/override config option (use
'section.name=value')
--configfile FILE [+] enables the given config file
--debug enable debugging output
--debugger start debugger
--encoding ENCODE set the charset encoding (default: ascii)
--encodingmode MODE set the charset encoding mode (default: strict)
--traceback always print a traceback on exception
--time time how long the command takes
--profile print command execution profile
--version output version information and exit
-h --help display help and exit
--hidden consider hidden changesets
--pager TYPE when to paginate (boolean, always, auto, or never)
(default: auto)
Test the textwidth config option
$ hg root -h --config ui.textwidth=50
hg root
print the root (top) of the current working
directory
Print the root directory of the current
repository.
Returns 0 on success.
(some details hidden, use --verbose to show
complete help)
Test help option with version option
$ hg add -h --version
Mercurial Distributed SCM (version *) (glob)
(see https://mercurial-scm.org for more information)
Copyright (C) 2005-* Matt Mackall and others (glob)
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
$ hg add --skjdfks
hg add: option --skjdfks not recognized
hg add [OPTION]... [FILE]...
start tracking the specified files
Options ([+] can be repeated):
-I --include PATTERN [+] include names matching the given patterns
-X --exclude PATTERN [+] exclude names matching the given patterns
-S --subrepos recurse into subrepositories
-n --dry-run do not perform actions, just print output
(use 'hg add -h' to show more help)
[255]
Test ambiguous command help
$ hg help ad
Commands:
add start tracking the specified files
addremove add all new files, delete all missing files
Test command without options
$ hg help verify
hg verify
verify the integrity of the repository
Verify the integrity of the current repository.
This will perform an extensive check of the repository's integrity,
validating the hashes and checksums of each entry in the changelog,
manifest, and tracked files, as well as the integrity of their crosslinks
and indices.
Please see https://mercurial-scm.org/wiki/RepositoryCorruption for more
information about recovery from corruption of the repository.
Returns 0 on success, 1 if errors are encountered.
Manifest verification can be extremely slow on large repos, so it can be
disabled if "verify.skipmanifests" is True:
[verify]
skipmanifests = true
Options ([+] can be repeated):
-r --rev REV [+] verify the specified revision or revset
(some details hidden, use --verbose to show complete help)
$ hg help diff
hg diff [OPTION]... ([-c REV] | [-r REV1 [-r REV2]]) [FILE]...
show differences between commits
Show the differences between two commits. If only one commit is specified,
shows the differences between the specified commit and your pending
changes. If no commits are specified, shows your pending changes.
Specify -c to see the changes in the specified commit relative to its
parent.
By default, this command skips binary files. To override this behavior,
specify -a to include binary files in the diff, probably with undesirable
results.
By default, diffs are shown using the unified diff format. Specify -g to
generate diffs in the git extended diff format. For more information, read
'hg help diffs'.
Note:
'hg diff' might generate unexpected results during merges because it
defaults to comparing against your checkout's first parent commit if no
commits are specified.
Returns 0 on success.
Options ([+] can be repeated):
-r --rev REV [+] revision
-c --change REV change made by revision
-a --text treat all files as text
-g --git use git extended diff format
--binary generate binary diffs in git mode (default)
--nodates omit dates from diff headers
--noprefix omit a/ and b/ prefixes from filenames
-p --show-function show which function each change is in
--reverse produce a diff that undoes the changes
-w --ignore-all-space ignore white space when comparing lines
-b --ignore-space-change ignore changes in the amount of white space
-B --ignore-blank-lines ignore changes whose lines are all blank
-Z --ignore-space-at-eol ignore changes in whitespace at EOL
-U --unified NUM number of lines of context to show
--stat output diffstat-style summary of changes
--root DIR produce diffs relative to subdirectory
--only-files-in-revs only show changes for files modified in the
requested revisions
-I --include PATTERN [+] include names matching the given patterns
-X --exclude PATTERN [+] exclude names matching the given patterns
-S --subrepos recurse into subrepositories
(some details hidden, use --verbose to show complete help)
$ hg help status
hg status [OPTION]... [FILE]...
aliases: st
list files with pending changes
Show status of files in the repository. If names are given, only files
that match are shown. Files that are clean or ignored or the source of a
copy/move operation, are not listed unless -c/--clean, -i/--ignored,
-C/--copies or -A/--all are given. Unless options described with "show
only ..." are given, the options -mardu are used.
Option -q/--quiet hides untracked (unknown and ignored) files unless
explicitly requested with -u/--unknown or -i/--ignored.
Note:
'hg status' may appear to disagree with diff if permissions have
changed or a merge has occurred. The standard diff format does not
report permission changes and diff only reports changes relative to one
merge parent.
If one revision is given, it is used as the base revision. If two
revisions are given, the differences between them are shown. The --change
option can also be used as a shortcut to list the changed files of a
revision from its first parent.
The codes used to show the status of files are:
M = modified
A = added
R = removed
C = clean
! = missing (deleted by non-hg command, but still tracked)
? = not tracked
I = ignored
= origin of the previous file (with --copies)
Returns 0 on success.
Options ([+] can be repeated):
-A --all show status of all files
-m --modified show only modified files
-a --added show only added files
-r --removed show only removed files
-d --deleted show only deleted (but tracked) files
-c --clean show only files without changes
-u --unknown show only unknown (not tracked) files
-i --ignored show only ignored files
-n --no-status hide status prefix
-C --copies show source of copied files
-0 --print0 end filenames with NUL, for use with xargs
--rev REV [+] show difference from revision
--change REV list the changed files of a revision
-I --include PATTERN [+] include names matching the given patterns
-X --exclude PATTERN [+] exclude names matching the given patterns
-S --subrepos recurse into subrepositories
(some details hidden, use --verbose to show complete help)
$ hg -q help status
hg status [OPTION]... [FILE]...
list files with pending changes
$ hg help foo
abort: no such help topic: foo
(try 'hg help --keyword foo')
[255]
$ hg skjdfks
hg: unknown command 'skjdfks'
Mercurial Distributed SCM
hg COMMAND [OPTIONS]
These are some common Mercurial commands. Use 'hg help commands' to list all
commands, and 'hg help COMMAND' to get help on a specific command.
Get the latest commits from the server:
pull pull changes from the specified source
View commits:
show show commit in detail
diff show differences between commits
Check out a commit:
checkout check out a specific commit
Work with your checkout:
status list files with pending changes
add start tracking the specified files
remove delete the specified tracked files
forget stop tracking the specified files
revert change the specified files to match a commit
Commit changes and modify commits:
commit save all pending changes or specified files in a new commit
Rearrange commits:
graft copy commits from a different location
Undo changes:
uncommit uncommit part or all of the current commit
Other commands:
config show config settings
grep search for a pattern in tracked files in the working directory
Additional help topics:
filesets specifying files by their characteristics
glossary common terms
patterns specifying files by file name pattern
revisions specifying commits
templating customizing output with templates
[255]
Typoed command gives suggestion
$ hg puls
hg: unknown command 'puls'
(did you mean one of pull, push?)
[255]
Not enabled extension gets suggested
$ hg rebase
hg: unknown command 'rebase'
'rebase' is provided by the following extension:
rebase command to move sets of revisions to a different ancestor
(use 'hg help extensions' for information on enabling extensions)
[255]
Disabled extension gets suggested
$ hg --config extensions.rebase=! rebase
hg: unknown command 'rebase'
'rebase' is provided by the following extension:
rebase command to move sets of revisions to a different ancestor
(use 'hg help extensions' for information on enabling extensions)
[255]
Make sure that we don't run afoul of the help system thinking that
this is a section and erroring out weirdly.
$ hg .log
hg: unknown command '.log'
(did you mean log?)
[255]
$ hg log.
hg: unknown command 'log.'
(did you mean log?)
[255]
$ hg pu.lh
hg: unknown command 'pu.lh'
(did you mean one of pull, push?)
[255]
$ cat > helpext.py <<EOF
> import os
> from edenscm.mercurial import commands, registrar
>
> cmdtable = {}
> command = registrar.command(cmdtable)
>
> @command(b'nohelp',
> [(b'', b'longdesc', 3, b'x'*90),
> (b'n', b'', None, b'normal desc'),
> (b'', b'newline', b'', b'line1\nline2')],
> b'hg nohelp',
> norepo=True)
> @command(b'debugoptADV', [(b'', b'aopt', None, b'option is (ADVANCED)')])
> @command(b'debugoptDEP', [(b'', b'dopt', None, b'option is (DEPRECATED)')])
> @command(b'debugoptEXP', [(b'', b'eopt', None, b'option is (EXPERIMENTAL)')])
> def nohelp(ui, *args, **kwargs):
> pass
>
> def uisetup(ui):
> ui.setconfig(b'alias', b'shellalias', b'!echo hi', b'helpext')
> ui.setconfig(b'alias', b'hgalias', b'summary', b'helpext')
>
> EOF
$ echo '[extensions]' >> $HGRCPATH
$ echo "helpext = `pwd`/helpext.py" >> $HGRCPATH
Test for aliases
$ hg help hgalias
hg hgalias [--remote]
alias for: hg summary
summarize working directory state
This generates a brief summary of the working directory state, including
parents, branch, commit status, phase and available updates.
With the --remote option, this will check the default paths for incoming
and outgoing changes. This can be time-consuming.
Returns 0 on success.
defined by: helpext
Options:
--remote check for push and pull
(some details hidden, use --verbose to show complete help)
$ hg help shellalias
hg shellalias
shell alias for:
echo hi
defined by: helpext
(some details hidden, use --verbose to show complete help)
Test command with no help text
$ hg help nohelp
hg nohelp
(no help text available)
Options:
--longdesc VALUE xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (default: 3)
-n -- normal desc
--newline VALUE line1 line2
(some details hidden, use --verbose to show complete help)
$ hg help -k nohelp
Commands:
nohelp hg nohelp
Extension Commands:
nohelp (no help text available)
Commands in disabled extensions gets suggested even if there is no help text
for the module itself.
$ hg help --config 'extensions.helpext=!'`pwd`/helpext.py nohelp
'nohelp' is provided by the following extension:
helpext (no help text available)
(use 'hg help extensions' for information on enabling extensions)
Test that default list of commands omits extension commands
$ hg help
Mercurial Distributed SCM
hg COMMAND [OPTIONS]
These are some common Mercurial commands. Use 'hg help commands' to list all
commands, and 'hg help COMMAND' to get help on a specific command.
Get the latest commits from the server:
pull pull changes from the specified source
View commits:
show show commit in detail
diff show differences between commits
Check out a commit:
checkout check out a specific commit
Work with your checkout:
status list files with pending changes
add start tracking the specified files
remove delete the specified tracked files
forget stop tracking the specified files
revert change the specified files to match a commit
Commit changes and modify commits:
commit save all pending changes or specified files in a new commit
Rearrange commits:
graft copy commits from a different location
Undo changes:
uncommit uncommit part or all of the current commit
Other commands:
config show config settings
grep search for a pattern in tracked files in the working directory
Additional help topics:
filesets specifying files by their characteristics
glossary common terms
patterns specifying files by file name pattern
revisions specifying commits
templating customizing output with templates
Test list of internal help commands
$ hg help debug
Debug commands (internal and unsupported):
debugancestor
find the ancestor revision of two revisions in a given index
debugapplystreamclonebundle
apply a stream clone bundle file
debugbuilddag
builds a repo with a given DAG from scratch in the current
empty repo
debugbundle lists the contents of a bundle
debugcapabilities
lists the capabilities of a remote peer
debugcheckcasecollisions
check for case collisions against a commit
debugcheckstate
validate the correctness of the current dirstate
debugcolor show available color, effects or style
debugcommands
list all available commands and options
debugcomplete
returns the completion list associated with the given command
debugcreatestreamclonebundle
create a stream clone bundle file
debugdag format the changelog or an index DAG as a concise textual
description
debugdata dump the contents of a data file revision
debugdate parse and display a date
debugdeltachain
dump information about delta chains in a revlog
debugdirstate
show the contents of the current dirstate
debugdiscovery
runs the changeset discovery protocol in isolation
debugdrawdag read an ASCII graph from stdin and create changesets
debugedenimporthelper
Obtain data for edenfs
debugextensions
show information about active extensions
debugfilerevision
dump internal metadata for given file revisions
debugfileset parse and apply a fileset specification
debugformat display format information about the current repository
debugfsinfo show information detected about current filesystem
debuggetbundle
retrieves a bundle from a repo
debugignore display the combined ignore pattern and information about
ignored files
debugindex dump the contents of an index file
debugindexdot
dump an index DAG as a graphviz dot file
debuginstall test Mercurial installation
debugknown test whether node ids are known to a repo
debuglocks show or modify state of locks
debugmergestate
print merge state
debugmutation
display the mutation history of a commit
debugnamecomplete
complete "names" - tags, open branch names, bookmark names
debugobsolete
create arbitrary obsolete marker
debugoptADV (no help text available)
debugoptDEP (no help text available)
debugoptEXP (no help text available)
debugpathcomplete
complete part or all of a tracked path
debugpickmergetool
examine which merge tool is chosen for specified file
debugprocesstree
show process tree related to hg
debugprogress
(no help text available)
debugpushkey access the pushkey key/value protocol
debugpvec (no help text available)
debugrebuilddirstate
rebuild the dirstate as it would look like for the given
revision
debugrebuildfncache
rebuild the fncache file
debugrename dump rename information
debugrevlog show data and statistics about a revlog
debugrevspec parse and apply a revision specification
debugsetparents
manually set the parents of the current working directory
debugshell (no help text available)
debugssl test a secure connection to a server
debugstatus common performance issues for status
debugsub (no help text available)
debugsuccessorssets
show set of successors for revision
debugtemplate
parse and apply a template
debugtreestate
manage treestate
debugupdatecaches
warm all known caches in the repository
debugupgraderepo
upgrade a repository to use different features
debugwalk show how files match on given patterns
debugwireargs
(no help text available)
internals topic renders index of available sub-topics
$ hg help internals
Technical implementation topics
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
To access a subtopic, use "hg help internals.{subtopic-name}"
bundles Bundles
censor Censor
changegroups Changegroups
config Config Registrar
requirements Repository Requirements
revlogs Revision Logs
wireprotocol Wire Protocol
sub-topics can be accessed
$ hg help internals.changegroups
Changegroups
""""""""""""
Changegroups are representations of repository revlog data, specifically
the changelog data, root/flat manifest data, treemanifest data, and
filelogs.
There are 3 versions of changegroups: "1", "2", and "3". From a high-
level, versions "1" and "2" are almost exactly the same, with the only
difference being an additional item in the *delta header*. Version "3"
adds support for revlog flags in the *delta header* and optionally
exchanging treemanifests (enabled by setting an option on the
"changegroup" part in the bundle2).
Changegroups when not exchanging treemanifests consist of 3 logical
segments:
+---------------------------------+
| | | |
| changeset | manifest | filelogs |
| | | |
| | | |
+---------------------------------+
When exchanging treemanifests, there are 4 logical segments:
+-------------------------------------------------+
| | | | |
| changeset | root | treemanifests | filelogs |
| | manifest | | |
| | | | |
+-------------------------------------------------+
The principle building block of each segment is a *chunk*. A *chunk* is a
framed piece of data:
+---------------------------------------+
| | |
| length | data |
| (4 bytes) | (<length - 4> bytes) |
| | |
+---------------------------------------+
All integers are big-endian signed integers. Each chunk starts with a
32-bit integer indicating the length of the entire chunk (including the
length field itself).
There is a special case chunk that has a value of 0 for the length
("0x00000000"). We call this an *empty chunk*.
Delta Groups
============
A *delta group* expresses the content of a revlog as a series of deltas,
or patches against previous revisions.
Delta groups consist of 0 or more *chunks* followed by the *empty chunk*
to signal the end of the delta group:
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| | | | | |
| chunk0 length | chunk0 data | chunk1 length | chunk1 data | 0x0 |
| (4 bytes) | (various) | (4 bytes) | (various) | (4 bytes) |
| | | | | |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Each *chunk*'s data consists of the following:
+---------------------------------------+
| | |
| delta header | delta data |
| (various by version) | (various) |
| | |
+---------------------------------------+
The *delta data* is a series of *delta*s that describe a diff from an
existing entry (either that the recipient already has, or previously
specified in the bundle/changegroup).
The *delta header* is different between versions "1", "2", and "3" of the
changegroup format.
Version 1 (headerlen=80):
+------------------------------------------------------+
| | | | |
| node | p1 node | p2 node | link node |
| (20 bytes) | (20 bytes) | (20 bytes) | (20 bytes) |
| | | | |
+------------------------------------------------------+
Version 2 (headerlen=100):
+------------------------------------------------------------------+
| | | | | |
| node | p1 node | p2 node | base node | link node |
| (20 bytes) | (20 bytes) | (20 bytes) | (20 bytes) | (20 bytes) |
| | | | | |
+------------------------------------------------------------------+
Version 3 (headerlen=102):
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| | | | | | |
| node | p1 node | p2 node | base node | link node | flags |
| (20 bytes) | (20 bytes) | (20 bytes) | (20 bytes) | (20 bytes) | (2 bytes) |
| | | | | | |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
The *delta data* consists of "chunklen - 4 - headerlen" bytes, which
contain a series of *delta*s, densely packed (no separators). These deltas
describe a diff from an existing entry (either that the recipient already
has, or previously specified in the bundle/changegroup). The format is
described more fully in "hg help internals.bdiff", but briefly:
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
| | | | |
| start offset | end offset | new length | content |
| (4 bytes) | (4 bytes) | (4 bytes) | (<new length> bytes) |
| | | | |
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
Please note that the length field in the delta data does *not* include
itself.
In version 1, the delta is always applied against the previous node from
the changegroup or the first parent if this is the first entry in the
changegroup.
In version 2 and up, the delta base node is encoded in the entry in the
changegroup. This allows the delta to be expressed against any parent,
which can result in smaller deltas and more efficient encoding of data.
Changeset Segment
=================
The *changeset segment* consists of a single *delta group* holding
changelog data. The *empty chunk* at the end of the *delta group* denotes
the boundary to the *manifest segment*.
Manifest Segment
================
The *manifest segment* consists of a single *delta group* holding manifest
data. If treemanifests are in use, it contains only the manifest for the
root directory of the repository. Otherwise, it contains the entire
manifest data. The *empty chunk* at the end of the *delta group* denotes
the boundary to the next segment (either the *treemanifests segment* or
the *filelogs segment*, depending on version and the request options).
Treemanifests Segment
---------------------
The *treemanifests segment* only exists in changegroup version "3", and
only if the 'treemanifest' param is part of the bundle2 changegroup part
(it is not possible to use changegroup version 3 outside of bundle2).
Aside from the filenames in the *treemanifests segment* containing a
trailing "/" character, it behaves identically to the *filelogs segment*
(see below). The final sub-segment is followed by an *empty chunk*
(logically, a sub-segment with filename size 0). This denotes the boundary
to the *filelogs segment*.
Filelogs Segment
================
The *filelogs segment* consists of multiple sub-segments, each
corresponding to an individual file whose data is being described:
+--------------------------------------------------+
| | | | | |
| filelog0 | filelog1 | filelog2 | ... | 0x0 |
| | | | | (4 bytes) |
| | | | | |
+--------------------------------------------------+
The final filelog sub-segment is followed by an *empty chunk* (logically,
a sub-segment with filename size 0). This denotes the end of the segment
and of the overall changegroup.
Each filelog sub-segment consists of the following:
+------------------------------------------------------+
| | | |
| filename length | filename | delta group |
| (4 bytes) | (<length - 4> bytes) | (various) |
| | | |
+------------------------------------------------------+
That is, a *chunk* consisting of the filename (not terminated or padded)
followed by N chunks constituting the *delta group* for this file. The
*empty chunk* at the end of each *delta group* denotes the boundary to the
next filelog sub-segment.
Test list of commands with command with no help text
$ hg help helpext
helpext extension - no help text available
Commands:
nohelp (no help text available)
test advanced, deprecated and experimental options are hidden in command help
$ hg help debugoptADV
hg debugoptADV
(no help text available)
(some details hidden, use --verbose to show complete help)
$ hg help debugoptDEP
hg debugoptDEP
(no help text available)
(some details hidden, use --verbose to show complete help)
$ hg help debugoptEXP
hg debugoptEXP
(no help text available)
(some details hidden, use --verbose to show complete help)
test advanced, deprecated and experimental options are shown with -v
$ hg help -v debugoptADV | grep aopt
--aopt option is (ADVANCED)
$ hg help -v debugoptDEP | grep dopt
--dopt option is (DEPRECATED)
$ hg help -v debugoptEXP | grep eopt
--eopt option is (EXPERIMENTAL)
#if gettext normal-layout
test deprecated option is hidden with translation with untranslated description
(use many globy for not failing on changed transaction)
$ LANGUAGE=sv hg help debugoptDEP
hg debugoptDEP
(*) (glob)
(some details hidden, use --verbose to show complete help)
#endif
Test commands that collide with topics (issue4240)
$ hg config -hq
hg config [-u] [NAME]...
show config settings
$ hg showconfig -hq
hg config [-u] [NAME]...
show config settings
Test a help topic
$ hg help dates
Date Formats
""""""""""""
Some commands allow the user to specify a date, e.g.:
- backout, commit, import, tag: Specify the commit date.
- log, revert, update: Select revision(s) by date.
Many date formats are valid. Here are some examples:
- "Wed Dec 6 13:18:29 2006" (local timezone assumed)
- "Dec 6 13:18 -0600" (year assumed, time offset provided)
- "Dec 6 13:18 UTC" (UTC and GMT are aliases for +0000)
- "Dec 6" (midnight)
- "13:18" (today assumed)
- "3:39" (3:39AM assumed)
- "3:39pm" (15:39)
- "2006-12-06 13:18:29" (ISO 8601 format)
- "2006-12-6 13:18"
- "2006-12-6"
- "12-6"
- "12/6"
- "12/6/6" (Dec 6 2006)
- "today" (midnight)
- "yesterday" (midnight)
- "now" - right now
Lastly, there is Mercurial's internal format:
- "1165411109 0" (Wed Dec 6 13:18:29 2006 UTC)
This is the internal representation format for dates. The first number is
the number of seconds since the epoch (1970-01-01 00:00 UTC). The second
is the offset of the local timezone, in seconds west of UTC (negative if
the timezone is east of UTC).
The log command also accepts date ranges:
- "<DATE" - at or before a given date/time
- ">DATE" - on or after a given date/time
- "DATE to DATE" - a date range, inclusive
- "-DAYS" - within a given number of days of today
Test repeated config section name
$ hg help config.host
"http_proxy.host"
Host name and (optional) port of the proxy server, for example
"myproxy:8000".
"smtp.host"
Host name of mail server, e.g. "mail.example.com".
Unrelated trailing paragraphs shouldn't be included
$ hg help config.extramsg | grep '^$'
Test capitalized section name
$ hg help scripting.HGPLAIN > /dev/null
Help subsection:
$ hg help config.charsets |grep "Email example:" > /dev/null
[1]
Show nested definitions
("profiling.type"[break]"ls"[break]"stat"[break])
$ hg help config.type | egrep '^$'|wc -l
\s*3 (re)
Separate sections from subsections
$ hg help config.format | egrep '^ ("|-)|^\s*$' | uniq
"format"
--------
"usegeneraldelta"
"dotencode"
"usefncache"
"usestore"
"dirstate"
"uselz4"
"cgdeltabase"
"profiling"
-----------
"format"
"progress"
----------
"format"
Last item in help config.*:
$ hg help config.`hg help config|grep '^ "'| \
> tail -1|sed 's![ "]*!!g'`| \
> grep 'hg help -c config' > /dev/null
[1]
note to use help -c for general hg help config:
$ hg help config |grep 'hg help -c config' > /dev/null
Test templating help
$ hg help templating | egrep '(desc|diffstat|firstline|nonempty) '
desc String. The text of the changeset description.
diffstat String. Statistics of changes with the following format:
firstline Any text. Returns the first line of text.
nonempty Any text. Returns '(none)' if the string is empty.
Test deprecated items
$ hg help -v templating | grep currentbookmark
currentbookmark
$ hg help templating | (grep currentbookmark || true)
Test help hooks
$ cat > helphook1.py <<EOF
> from edenscm.mercurial import help
>
> def rewrite(ui, topic, doc):
> return doc + '\nhelphook1\n'
>
> def extsetup(ui):
> help.addtopichook('revisions', rewrite)
> EOF
$ cat > helphook2.py <<EOF
> from edenscm.mercurial import help
>
> def rewrite(ui, topic, doc):
> return doc + '\nhelphook2\n'
>
> def extsetup(ui):
> help.addtopichook('revisions', rewrite)
> EOF
$ echo '[extensions]' >> $HGRCPATH
$ echo "helphook1 = `pwd`/helphook1.py" >> $HGRCPATH
$ echo "helphook2 = `pwd`/helphook2.py" >> $HGRCPATH
$ hg help revsets | grep helphook
helphook1
helphook2
help -c should only show debug --debug
$ hg help -c --debug|egrep debug|wc -l|egrep '^\s*0\s*$'
[1]
help -c should only show deprecated for -v
$ hg help -c -v|egrep DEPRECATED|wc -l|egrep '^\s*0\s*$'
[1]
Test -s / --system
$ hg help config.files -s windows |grep 'etc/mercurial' | \
> wc -l | sed -e 's/ //g'
0
$ hg help config.files --system unix | grep 'USER' | \
> wc -l | sed -e 's/ //g'
0
Test -e / -c / -k combinations
$ hg help -c|egrep '^[A-Z].*:|^ debug'
Commands:
$ hg help -e|egrep '^[A-Z].*:|^ debug'
Extensions:
debugcommitmessage (no help text available)
debugshell a python shell with repo, changelog & manifest objects
$ hg help -k|egrep '^[A-Z].*:|^ debug'
Topics:
Commands:
Extensions:
debugcommitmessage (no help text available)
debugshell a python shell with repo, changelog & manifest objects
Extension Commands:
$ hg help -c schemes
abort: no such help topic: schemes
(try 'hg help --keyword schemes')
[255]
$ hg help -e schemes |head -1
schemes extension - extend schemes with shortcuts to repository swarms
$ hg help -c -k dates |egrep '^(Topics|Extensions|Commands):'
Commands:
$ hg help -e -k a |egrep '^(Topics|Extensions|Commands):'
Extensions:
$ hg help -e -c -k date |egrep '^(Topics|Extensions|Commands):'
Extensions:
Commands:
$ hg help -c commit > /dev/null
$ hg help -e -c commit > /dev/null
$ hg help -e commit > /dev/null
abort: no such help topic: commit
(try 'hg help --keyword commit')
[255]
Test keyword search help
$ cat > prefixedname.py <<EOF
> '''matched against word "clone"
> '''
> EOF
$ echo '[extensions]' >> $HGRCPATH
$ echo "dot.dot.prefixedname = `pwd`/prefixedname.py" >> $HGRCPATH
$ hg help -k clone
Topics:
config Configuration Files
extensions Using Additional Features
glossary Common Terms
phases Working with Phases
subrepos Subrepositories
urls URL Paths
Commands:
bookmarks create a new bookmark or list existing bookmarks
clone make a copy of an existing repository
paths show aliases for remote repositories
Extensions:
clonebundles advertise pre-generated bundles to seed clones
prefixedname matched against word "clone"
Test unfound topic
$ hg help nonexistingtopicthatwillneverexisteverever
abort: no such help topic: nonexistingtopicthatwillneverexisteverever
(try 'hg help --keyword nonexistingtopicthatwillneverexisteverever')
[255]
Test unfound keyword
$ hg help --keyword nonexistingwordthatwillneverexisteverever
abort: no matches
(try 'hg help' for a list of topics)
[255]
Test omit indicating for help
$ cat > addverboseitems.py <<EOF
> '''extension to test omit indicating.
>
> This paragraph is never omitted (for extension)
>
> .. container:: verbose
>
> This paragraph is omitted,
> if :hg:\`help\` is invoked without \`\`-v\`\` (for extension)
>
> This paragraph is never omitted, too (for extension)
> '''
> from __future__ import absolute_import
> from edenscm.mercurial import commands, help
> testtopic = """This paragraph is never omitted (for topic).
>
> .. container:: verbose
>
> This paragraph is omitted,
> if :hg:\`help\` is invoked without \`\`-v\`\` (for topic)
>
> This paragraph is never omitted, too (for topic)
> """
> def extsetup(ui):
> help.helptable.append((["topic-containing-verbose"],
> "This is the topic to test omit indicating.",
> lambda ui: testtopic))
> EOF
$ echo '[extensions]' >> $HGRCPATH
$ echo "addverboseitems = `pwd`/addverboseitems.py" >> $HGRCPATH
$ hg help addverboseitems
addverboseitems extension - extension to test omit indicating.
This paragraph is never omitted (for extension)
This paragraph is never omitted, too (for extension)
(some details hidden, use --verbose to show complete help)
no commands defined
$ hg help -v addverboseitems
addverboseitems extension - extension to test omit indicating.
This paragraph is never omitted (for extension)
This paragraph is omitted, if 'hg help' is invoked without "-v" (for
extension)
This paragraph is never omitted, too (for extension)
no commands defined
$ hg help topic-containing-verbose
This is the topic to test omit indicating.
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
This paragraph is never omitted (for topic).
This paragraph is never omitted, too (for topic)
(some details hidden, use --verbose to show complete help)
$ hg help -v topic-containing-verbose
This is the topic to test omit indicating.
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
This paragraph is never omitted (for topic).
This paragraph is omitted, if 'hg help' is invoked without "-v" (for
topic)
This paragraph is never omitted, too (for topic)
Test section lookup
$ hg help revset.merge
"merge()"
Changeset is a merge changeset.
$ hg help glossary.dag
DAG
The repository of changesets of a distributed version control system
(DVCS) can be described as a directed acyclic graph (DAG), consisting
of nodes and edges, where nodes correspond to changesets and edges
imply a parent -> child relation. This graph can be visualized by
graphical tools such as 'hg log --graph'. In Mercurial, the DAG is
limited by the requirement for children to have at most two parents.
$ hg help hgrc.paths
"paths"
-------
Assigns symbolic names and behavior to repositories.
Options are symbolic names defining the URL or directory that is the
location of the repository. Example:
[paths]
my_server = https://example.com/my_repo
local_path = /home/me/repo
These symbolic names can be used from the command line. To pull from
"my_server": 'hg pull my_server'. To push to "local_path": 'hg push
local_path'.
Options containing colons (":") denote sub-options that can influence
behavior for that specific path. Example:
[paths]
my_server = https://example.com/my_path
my_server:pushurl = ssh://example.com/my_path
The following sub-options can be defined:
"pushurl"
The URL to use for push operations. If not defined, the location
defined by the path's main entry is used.
"pushrev"
A revset defining which revisions to push by default.
When 'hg push' is executed without a "-r" argument, the revset defined
by this sub-option is evaluated to determine what to push.
For example, a value of "." will push the working directory's revision
by default.
Revsets specifying bookmarks will not result in the bookmark being
pushed.
The following special named paths exist:
"default"
The URL or directory to use when no source or remote is specified.
'hg clone' will automatically define this path to the location the
repository was cloned from.
"default-push"
(deprecated) The URL or directory for the default 'hg push' location.
"default:pushurl" should be used instead.
$ hg help glossary.mcguffin
abort: help section not found: glossary.mcguffin
[255]
$ hg help glossary.mc.guffin
abort: help section not found: glossary.mc.guffin
[255]
$ hg help template.files
files List of strings. All files modified, added, or removed by
this changeset.
files(pattern)
All files of the current changeset matching the pattern. See
'hg help patterns'.
Test section lookup by translated message
str.lower() instead of encoding.lower(str) on translated message might
make message meaningless, because some encoding uses 0x41(A) - 0x5a(Z)
as the second or later byte of multi-byte character.
For example, "\x8bL\x98^" (translation of "record" in ja_JP.cp932)
contains 0x4c (L). str.lower() replaces 0x4c(L) by 0x6c(l) and this
replacement makes message meaningless.
This tests that section lookup by translated string isn't broken by
such str.lower().
$ $PYTHON <<EOF
> def escape(s):
> return ''.join('\u%x' % ord(uc) for uc in s.decode('cp932'))
> # translation of "record" in ja_JP.cp932
> upper = "\x8bL\x98^"
> # str.lower()-ed section name should be treated as different one
> lower = "\x8bl\x98^"
> with open('ambiguous.py', 'w') as fp:
> fp.write("""# ambiguous section names in ja_JP.cp932
> u'''summary of extension
>
> %s
> ----
>
> Upper name should show only this message
>
> %s
> ----
>
> Lower name should show only this message
>
> subsequent section
> ------------------
>
> This should be hidden at 'hg help ambiguous' with section name.
> '''
> """ % (escape(upper), escape(lower)))
> EOF
$ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<EOF
> [extensions]
> ambiguous = ./ambiguous.py
> EOF
$ $PYTHON <<EOF | sh
> upper = "\x8bL\x98^"
> print("hg --encoding cp932 help -e ambiguous.%s" % upper)
> EOF
\x8bL\x98^ (esc)
----
Upper name should show only this message
$ $PYTHON <<EOF | sh
> lower = "\x8bl\x98^"
> print("hg --encoding cp932 help -e ambiguous.%s" % lower)
> EOF
\x8bl\x98^ (esc)
----
Lower name should show only this message
$ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<EOF
> [extensions]
> ambiguous = !
> EOF
Show help content of disabled extensions
$ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<EOF
> [extensions]
> ambiguous = !./ambiguous.py
> EOF
$ hg help -e ambiguous
ambiguous extension - (no help text available)
(use 'hg help extensions' for information on enabling extensions)
Test dynamic list of merge tools only shows up once
$ hg help merge-tools
Merge Tools
"""""""""""
To merge files Mercurial uses merge tools.
A merge tool combines two different versions of a file into a merged file.
Merge tools are given the two files and the greatest common ancestor of
the two file versions, so they can determine the changes made on both
branches.
Merge tools are used both for 'hg resolve', 'hg merge', 'hg update', 'hg
backout' and in several extensions.
Usually, the merge tool tries to automatically reconcile the files by
combining all non-overlapping changes that occurred separately in the two
different evolutions of the same initial base file. Furthermore, some
interactive merge programs make it easier to manually resolve conflicting
merges, either in a graphical way, or by inserting some conflict markers.
Mercurial does not include any interactive merge programs but relies on
external tools for that.
Available merge tools
=====================
External merge tools and their properties are configured in the merge-
tools configuration section - see hgrc(5) - but they can often just be
named by their executable.
A merge tool is generally usable if its executable can be found on the
system and if it can handle the merge. The executable is found if it is an
absolute or relative executable path or the name of an application in the
executable search path. The tool is assumed to be able to handle the merge
if it can handle symlinks if the file is a symlink, if it can handle
binary files if the file is binary, and if a GUI is available if the tool
requires a GUI.
There are some internal merge tools which can be used. The internal merge
tools are:
":dump"
Creates three versions of the files to merge, containing the contents of
local, other and base. These files can then be used to perform a merge
manually. If the file to be merged is named "a.txt", these files will
accordingly be named "a.txt.local", "a.txt.other" and "a.txt.base" and
they will be placed in the same directory as "a.txt".
This implies premerge. Therefore, files aren't dumped, if premerge runs
successfully. Use :forcedump to forcibly write files out.
":fail"
Rather than attempting to merge files that were modified on both
branches, it marks them as unresolved. The resolve command must be used
to resolve these conflicts.
":forcedump"
Creates three versions of the files as same as :dump, but omits
premerge.
":local"
Uses the local 'p1()' version of files as the merged version.
":merge"
Uses the internal non-interactive simple merge algorithm for merging
files. It will fail if there are any conflicts and leave markers in the
partially merged file. Markers will have two sections, one for each side
of merge.
":merge-local"
Like :merge, but resolve all conflicts non-interactively in favor of the
local 'p1()' changes.
":merge-other"
Like :merge, but resolve all conflicts non-interactively in favor of the
other 'p2()' changes.
":merge3"
Uses the internal non-interactive simple merge algorithm for merging
files. It will fail if there are any conflicts and leave markers in the
partially merged file. Marker will have three sections, one from each
side of the merge and one for the base content.
":other"
Uses the other 'p2()' version of files as the merged version.
":prompt"
Asks the user which of the local 'p1()' or the other 'p2()' version to
keep as the merged version.
":tagmerge"
Uses the internal tag merge algorithm (experimental).
":union"
Uses the internal non-interactive simple merge algorithm for merging
files. It will use both left and right sides for conflict regions. No
markers are inserted.
Internal tools are always available and do not require a GUI but will by
default not handle symlinks or binary files.
Choosing a merge tool
=====================
Mercurial uses these rules when deciding which merge tool to use:
1. If a tool has been specified with the --tool option to merge or
resolve, it is used. If it is the name of a tool in the merge-tools
configuration, its configuration is used. Otherwise the specified tool
must be executable by the shell.
2. If the "HGMERGE" environment variable is present, its value is used and
must be executable by the shell.
3. If the filename of the file to be merged matches any of the patterns in
the merge-patterns configuration section, the first usable merge tool
corresponding to a matching pattern is used. Here, binary capabilities
of the merge tool are not considered.
4. If ui.merge is set it will be considered next. If the value is not the
name of a configured tool, the specified value is used and must be
executable by the shell. Otherwise the named tool is used if it is
usable.
5. If any usable merge tools are present in the merge-tools configuration
section, the one with the highest priority is used.
6. If a program named "hgmerge" can be found on the system, it is used -
but it will by default not be used for symlinks and binary files.
7. If the file to be merged is not binary and is not a symlink, then
internal ":merge" is used.
8. Otherwise, ":prompt" is used.
Note:
After selecting a merge program, Mercurial will by default attempt to
merge the files using a simple merge algorithm first. Only if it
doesn't succeed because of conflicting changes will Mercurial actually
execute the merge program. Whether to use the simple merge algorithm
first can be controlled by the premerge setting of the merge tool.
Premerge is enabled by default unless the file is binary or a symlink.
See the merge-tools and ui sections of hgrc(5) for details on the
configuration of merge tools.
Compression engines listed in `hg help bundlespec`
$ hg help bundlespec | grep gzip
"v1" bundles can only use the "gzip", "bzip2", and "none" compression
An algorithm that produces smaller bundles than "gzip".
This engine will likely produce smaller bundles than "gzip" but will be
"gzip"
better compression than "gzip". It also frequently yields better (?)
#if normal-layout
Test usage of section marks in help documents
$ cd "$TESTDIR"/../doc
$ $PYTHON check-seclevel.py
#endif
$ cd $TESTTMP
#if serve
Test the help pages in hgweb.
Dish up an empty repo; serve it cold.
$ hg init "$TESTTMP/test"
$ hg serve -R "$TESTTMP/test" -n test -p 0 --port-file $TESTTMP/.port -d --pid-file=hg.pid
$ HGPORT=`cat $TESTTMP/.port`
$ cat hg.pid >> $DAEMON_PIDS
$ get-with-headers.py $LOCALIP:$HGPORT "help"
200 Script output follows
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<body>
<div class="container">
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<div class="logo">
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<li><a href="/shortlog">log</a></li>
<li><a href="/graph">graph</a></li>
<li><a href="/tags">tags</a></li>
<li><a href="/bookmarks">bookmarks</a></li>
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<form class="search" action="/log">
<p><input name="rev" id="search1" type="text" size="30" value="" /></p>
<div id="hint">Find changesets by keywords (author, files, the commit message), revision
number or hash, or <a href="/help/revsets">revset expression</a>.</div>
</form>
<table class="bigtable">
<tr><td colspan="2"><h2><a name="topics" href="#topics">Topics</a></h2></td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/bundlespec">
bundlespec
</a>
</td><td>
Bundle File Formats
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/color">
color
</a>
</td><td>
Colorizing Outputs
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/config">
config
</a>
</td><td>
Configuration Files
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/dates">
dates
</a>
</td><td>
Date Formats
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/diffs">
diffs
</a>
</td><td>
Diff Formats
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/environment">
environment
</a>
</td><td>
Environment Variables
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/extensions">
extensions
</a>
</td><td>
Using Additional Features
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/filesets">
filesets
</a>
</td><td>
Specifying Files by their Characteristics
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/flags">
flags
</a>
</td><td>
Command-line flags
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/glossary">
glossary
</a>
</td><td>
Common Terms
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/hgignore">
hgignore
</a>
</td><td>
Syntax for Mercurial Ignore Files
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/hgweb">
hgweb
</a>
</td><td>
Configuring hgweb
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/internals">
internals
</a>
</td><td>
Technical implementation topics
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/merge-tools">
merge-tools
</a>
</td><td>
Merge Tools
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/pager">
pager
</a>
</td><td>
Pager Support
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/patterns">
patterns
</a>
</td><td>
Specifying Files by File Name Pattern
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/phases">
phases
</a>
</td><td>
Working with Phases
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/revisions">
revisions
</a>
</td><td>
Specifying Commits
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/scripting">
scripting
</a>
</td><td>
Using Mercurial from scripts and automation
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/subrepos">
subrepos
</a>
</td><td>
Subrepositories
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/templating">
templating
</a>
</td><td>
Customizing Output with Templates
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/urls">
urls
</a>
</td><td>
URL Paths
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/topic-containing-verbose">
topic-containing-verbose
</a>
</td><td>
This is the topic to test omit indicating.
</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"><h2><a name="main" href="#main">Main Commands</a></h2></td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/add">
add
</a>
</td><td>
start tracking the specified files
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/annotate">
annotate
</a>
</td><td>
show changeset information by line for each file
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/clone">
clone
</a>
</td><td>
make a copy of an existing repository
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/commit">
commit
</a>
</td><td>
save all pending changes or specified files in a new commit
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/diff">
diff
</a>
</td><td>
show differences between commits
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/export">
export
</a>
</td><td>
dump the header and diffs for one or more changesets
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/forget">
forget
</a>
</td><td>
stop tracking the specified files
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/githelp">
githelp
</a>
</td><td>
suggests the Mercurial equivalent of the given git command
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/init">
init
</a>
</td><td>
create a new repository in the given directory
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/log">
log
</a>
</td><td>
show commit history
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/merge">
merge
</a>
</td><td>
merge another revision into working directory
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/pull">
pull
</a>
</td><td>
pull changes from the specified source
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/push">
push
</a>
</td><td>
push changes to the specified destination
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/record">
record
</a>
</td><td>
interactively select changes to commit
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/remove">
remove
</a>
</td><td>
delete the specified tracked files
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/serve">
serve
</a>
</td><td>
start stand-alone webserver
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/show">
show
</a>
</td><td>
show commit in detail
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/status">
status
</a>
</td><td>
list files with pending changes
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/summary">
summary
</a>
</td><td>
summarize working directory state
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/update">
update
</a>
</td><td>
check out a specific commit
</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"><h2><a name="other" href="#other">Other Commands</a></h2></td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/addremove">
addremove
</a>
</td><td>
add all new files, delete all missing files
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/archive">
archive
</a>
</td><td>
create an unversioned archive of a repository revision
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/backout">
backout
</a>
</td><td>
reverse effect of earlier changeset
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/bisect">
bisect
</a>
</td><td>
subdivision search of changesets
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/bookmarks">
bookmarks
</a>
</td><td>
create a new bookmark or list existing bookmarks
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/branch">
branch
</a>
</td><td>
set or show the current branch name
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/branches">
branches
</a>
</td><td>
list repository named branches
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/bundle">
bundle
</a>
</td><td>
create a bundle file
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/cat">
cat
</a>
</td><td>
output the current or given revision of files
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/config">
config
</a>
</td><td>
show config settings
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/copy">
copy
</a>
</td><td>
mark files as copied for the next commit
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/files">
files
</a>
</td><td>
list tracked files
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/graft">
graft
</a>
</td><td>
copy commits from a different location
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/grep">
grep
</a>
</td><td>
search for a pattern in tracked files in the working directory
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/heads">
heads
</a>
</td><td>
show branch heads
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/help">
help
</a>
</td><td>
show help for a given topic or a help overview
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/hgalias">
hgalias
</a>
</td><td>
summarize working directory state
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/hint">
hint
</a>
</td><td>
acknowledge hints
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/histgrep">
histgrep
</a>
</td><td>
search backwards through history for a pattern in the specified files
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/identify">
identify
</a>
</td><td>
identify the working directory or specified revision
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/import">
import
</a>
</td><td>
import an ordered set of patches
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/incoming">
incoming
</a>
</td><td>
show new changesets found in source
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/manifest">
manifest
</a>
</td><td>
output the current or given revision of the project manifest
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/nohelp">
nohelp
</a>
</td><td>
(no help text available)
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/outgoing">
outgoing
</a>
</td><td>
show changesets not found in the destination
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/paths">
paths
</a>
</td><td>
show aliases for remote repositories
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/phase">
phase
</a>
</td><td>
set or show the current phase name
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/recover">
recover
</a>
</td><td>
roll back an interrupted transaction
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/rename">
rename
</a>
</td><td>
rename files; equivalent of copy + remove
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/resolve">
resolve
</a>
</td><td>
redo merges or set/view the merge status of files
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/revert">
revert
</a>
</td><td>
change the specified files to match a commit
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/root">
root
</a>
</td><td>
print the root (top) of the current working directory
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/shellalias">
shellalias
</a>
</td><td>
(no help text available)
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/tag">
tag
</a>
</td><td>
add one or more tags for the current or given revision
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/tags">
tags
</a>
</td><td>
list repository tags
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/unbundle">
unbundle
</a>
</td><td>
apply one or more bundle files
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/uncommit">
uncommit
</a>
</td><td>
uncommit part or all of the current commit
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/verify">
verify
</a>
</td><td>
verify the integrity of the repository
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<a href="/help/version">
version
</a>
</td><td>
output version and copyright information
</td></tr>
</table>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
$ get-with-headers.py $LOCALIP:$HGPORT "help/add"
200 Script output follows
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<head>
<link rel="icon" href="/static/hgicon.png" type="image/png" />
<meta name="robots" content="index, nofollow" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/style-paper.css" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="/static/mercurial.js"></script>
<title>Help: add</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="menu">
<div class="logo">
<a href="https://mercurial-scm.org/">
<img src="/static/hglogo.png" alt="mercurial" /></a>
</div>
<ul>
<li><a href="/shortlog">log</a></li>
<li><a href="/graph">graph</a></li>
<li><a href="/tags">tags</a></li>
<li><a href="/bookmarks">bookmarks</a></li>
<li><a href="/branches">branches</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="active"><a href="/help">help</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="main">
<h2 class="breadcrumb"><a href="/">Mercurial</a> </h2>
<h3>Help: add</h3>
<form class="search" action="/log">
<p><input name="rev" id="search1" type="text" size="30" value="" /></p>
<div id="hint">Find changesets by keywords (author, files, the commit message), revision
number or hash, or <a href="/help/revsets">revset expression</a>.</div>
</form>
<div id="doc">
<p>
hg add [OPTION]... [FILE]...
</p>
<p>
start tracking the specified files
</p>
<p>
Schedule files to be version controlled and added to the
repository.
</p>
<p>
The files will be added to the repository at the next commit. To
undo an add before that, see 'hg forget'.
</p>
<p>
If no names are given, add all files to the repository (except
files matching &quot;.hgignore&quot;).
</p>
<p>
Examples:
</p>
<ul>
<li> New (unknown) files are added automatically by 'hg add':
<pre>
\$ ls (re)
foo.c
\$ hg status (re)
? foo.c
\$ hg add (re)
adding foo.c
\$ hg status (re)
A foo.c
</pre>
<li> Specific files to be added can be specified:
<pre>
\$ ls (re)
bar.c foo.c
\$ hg status (re)
? bar.c
? foo.c
\$ hg add bar.c (re)
\$ hg status (re)
A bar.c
? foo.c
</pre>
</ul>
<p>
Returns 0 if all files are successfully added.
</p>
<p>
Options ([+] can be repeated):
</p>
<table>
<tr><td>-I</td>
<td>--include PATTERN [+]</td>
<td>include names matching the given patterns</td></tr>
<tr><td>-X</td>
<td>--exclude PATTERN [+]</td>
<td>exclude names matching the given patterns</td></tr>
<tr><td>-S</td>
<td>--subrepos</td>
<td>recurse into subrepositories</td></tr>
<tr><td>-n</td>
<td>--dry-run</td>
<td>do not perform actions, just print output</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
Global options ([+] can be repeated):
</p>
<table>
<tr><td>-R</td>
<td>--repository REPO</td>
<td>repository root directory or name of overlay bundle file</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td>--cwd DIR</td>
<td>change working directory</td></tr>
<tr><td>-y</td>
<td>--noninteractive</td>
<td>do not prompt, automatically pick the first choice for all prompts</td></tr>
<tr><td>-q</td>
<td>--quiet</td>
<td>suppress output</td></tr>
<tr><td>-v</td>
<td>--verbose</td>
<td>enable additional output</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td>--color TYPE</td>
<td>when to colorize (boolean, always, auto, never, or debug)</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td>--config CONFIG [+]</td>
<td>set/override config option (use 'section.name=value')</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td>--configfile FILE [+]</td>
<td>enables the given config file</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td>--debug</td>
<td>enable debugging output</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td>--debugger</td>
<td>start debugger</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td>--encoding ENCODE</td>
<td>set the charset encoding (default: ascii)</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td>--encodingmode MODE</td>
<td>set the charset encoding mode (default: strict)</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td>--traceback</td>
<td>always print a traceback on exception</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td>--time</td>
<td>time how long the command takes</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td>--profile</td>
<td>print command execution profile</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td>--version</td>
<td>output version information and exit</td></tr>
<tr><td>-h</td>
<td>--help</td>
<td>display help and exit</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td>--hidden</td>
<td>consider hidden changesets</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td>--pager TYPE</td>
<td>when to paginate (boolean, always, auto, or never) (default: auto)</td></tr>
</table>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
$ get-with-headers.py $LOCALIP:$HGPORT "help/remove"
200 Script output follows
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-US">
<head>
<link rel="icon" href="/static/hgicon.png" type="image/png" />
<meta name="robots" content="index, nofollow" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/style-paper.css" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="/static/mercurial.js"></script>
<title>Help: remove</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="menu">
<div class="logo">
<a href="https://mercurial-scm.org/">
<img src="/static/hglogo.png" alt="mercurial" /></a>
</div>
<ul>
<li><a href="/shortlog">log</a></li>
<li><a href="/graph">graph</a></li>
<li><a href="/tags">tags</a></li>
<li><a href="/bookmarks">bookmarks</a></li>
<li><a href="/branches">branches</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="active"><a href="/help">help</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="main">
<h2 class="breadcrumb"><a href="/">Mercurial</a> </h2>
<h3>Help: remove</h3>
<form class="search" action="/log">
<p><input name="rev" id="search1" type="text" size="30" value="" /></p>
<div id="hint">Find changesets by keywords (author, files, the commit message), revision
number or hash, or <a href="/help/revsets">revset expression</a>.</div>
</form>
<div id="doc">
<p>
hg remove [OPTION]... FILE...
</p>
<p>
aliases: rm
</p>
<p>
delete the specified tracked files
</p>
<p>
Schedule the indicated files for removal from the current branch.
</p>
<p>
This command schedules the files to be removed at the next commit.
To undo a remove before that, see 'hg revert'. To undo added
files, see 'hg forget'.
</p>
<p>
-A/--after can be used to remove only files that have already
been deleted, -f/--force can be used to force deletion, and -Af
can be used to remove files from the next revision without
deleting them from the working directory.
</p>
<p>
The following table details the behavior of remove for different
file states (columns) and option combinations (rows). The file
states are Added [A], Clean [C], Modified [M] and Missing [!]
(as reported by 'hg status'). The actions are Warn, Remove
(from branch) and Delete (from disk):
</p>
<table>
<tr><td>opt/state</td>
<td>A</td>
<td>C</td>
<td>M</td>
<td>!</td></tr>
<tr><td>none</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>RD</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>R</td></tr>
<tr><td>-f</td>
<td>R</td>
<td>RD</td>
<td>RD</td>
<td>R</td></tr>
<tr><td>-A</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>W</td>
<td>R</td></tr>
<tr><td>-Af</td>
<td>R</td>
<td>R</td>
<td>R</td>
<td>R</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
<b>Note:</b>
</p>
<p>
'hg remove' never deletes files in Added [A] state from the
working directory, not even if &quot;--force&quot; is specified.
</p>
<p>
Returns 0 on success, 1 if any warnings encountered.
</p>
<p>
Options ([+] can be repeated):
</p>
<table>
<tr><td>-A</td>
<td>--after</td>
<td>record delete for missing files</td></tr>
<tr><td>-f</td>
<td>--force</td>
<td>forget added files, delete modified files</td></tr>
<tr><td>-S</td>
<td>--subrepos</td>
<td>recurse into subrepositories</td></tr>
<tr><td>-I</td>
<td>--include PATTERN [+]</td>
<td>include names matching the given patterns</td></tr>
<tr><td>-X</td>
<td>--exclude PATTERN [+]</td>
<td>exclude names matching the given patterns</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
Global options ([+] can be repeated):
</p>
<table>
<tr><td>-R</td>
<td>--repository REPO</td>
<td>repository root directory or name of overlay bundle file</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td>--cwd DIR</td>
<td>change working directory</td></tr>
<tr><td>-y</td>
<td>--noninteractive</td>
<td>do not prompt, automatically pick the first choice for all prompts</td></tr>
<tr><td>-q</td>
<td>--quiet</td>
<td>suppress output</td></tr>
<tr><td>-v</td>
<td>--verbose</td>
<td>enable additional output</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td>--color TYPE</td>
<td>when to colorize (boolean, always, auto, never, or debug)</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td>--config CONFIG [+]</td>
<td>set/override config option (use 'section.name=value')</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td>--configfile FILE [+]</td>
<td>enables the given config file</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td>--debug</td>
<td>enable debugging output</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td>--debugger</td>
<td>start debugger</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td>--encoding ENCODE</td>
<td>set the charset encoding (default: ascii)</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td>--encodingmode MODE</td>
<td>set the charset encoding mode (default: strict)</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td>--traceback</td>
<td>always print a traceback on exception</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td>--time</td>
<td>time how long the command takes</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td>--profile</td>
<td>print command execution profile</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td>--version</td>
<td>output version information and exit</td></tr>
<tr><td>-h</td>
<td>--help</td>
<td>display help and exit</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td>--hidden</td>
<td>consider hidden changesets</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td>--pager TYPE</td>
<td>when to paginate (boolean, always, auto, or never) (default: auto)</td></tr>
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<p>
Some commands allow the user to specify a date, e.g.:
</p>
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<li> backout, commit, import, tag: Specify the commit date.
<li> log, revert, update: Select revision(s) by date.
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<p>
Many date formats are valid. Here are some examples:
</p>
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<li> &quot;Wed Dec 6 13:18:29 2006&quot; (local timezone assumed)
<li> &quot;Dec 6 13:18 -0600&quot; (year assumed, time offset provided)
<li> &quot;Dec 6 13:18 UTC&quot; (UTC and GMT are aliases for +0000)
<li> &quot;Dec 6&quot; (midnight)
<li> &quot;13:18&quot; (today assumed)
<li> &quot;3:39&quot; (3:39AM assumed)
<li> &quot;3:39pm&quot; (15:39)
<li> &quot;2006-12-06 13:18:29&quot; (ISO 8601 format)
<li> &quot;2006-12-6 13:18&quot;
<li> &quot;2006-12-6&quot;
<li> &quot;12-6&quot;
<li> &quot;12/6&quot;
<li> &quot;12/6/6&quot; (Dec 6 2006)
<li> &quot;today&quot; (midnight)
<li> &quot;yesterday&quot; (midnight)
<li> &quot;now&quot; - right now
</ul>
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Lastly, there is Mercurial's internal format:
</p>
<ul>
<li> &quot;1165411109 0&quot; (Wed Dec 6 13:18:29 2006 UTC)
</ul>
<p>
This is the internal representation format for dates. The first number
is the number of seconds since the epoch (1970-01-01 00:00 UTC). The
second is the offset of the local timezone, in seconds west of UTC
(negative if the timezone is east of UTC).
</p>
<p>
The log command also accepts date ranges:
</p>
<ul>
<li> &quot;&lt;DATE&quot; - at or before a given date/time
<li> &quot;&gt;DATE&quot; - on or after a given date/time
<li> &quot;DATE to DATE&quot; - a date range, inclusive
<li> &quot;-DAYS&quot; - within a given number of days of today
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<h1>Changegroups</h1>
<p>
Changegroups are representations of repository revlog data, specifically
the changelog data, root/flat manifest data, treemanifest data, and
filelogs.
</p>
<p>
There are 3 versions of changegroups: &quot;1&quot;, &quot;2&quot;, and &quot;3&quot;. From a
high-level, versions &quot;1&quot; and &quot;2&quot; are almost exactly the same, with the
only difference being an additional item in the *delta header*. Version
&quot;3&quot; adds support for revlog flags in the *delta header* and optionally
exchanging treemanifests (enabled by setting an option on the
&quot;changegroup&quot; part in the bundle2).
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Changegroups when not exchanging treemanifests consist of 3 logical
segments:
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<pre>
+---------------------------------+
| | | |
| changeset | manifest | filelogs |
| | | |
| | | |
+---------------------------------+
</pre>
<p>
When exchanging treemanifests, there are 4 logical segments:
</p>
<pre>
+-------------------------------------------------+
| | | | |
| changeset | root | treemanifests | filelogs |
| | manifest | | |
| | | | |
+-------------------------------------------------+
</pre>
<p>
The principle building block of each segment is a *chunk*. A *chunk*
is a framed piece of data:
</p>
<pre>
+---------------------------------------+
| | |
| length | data |
| (4 bytes) | (&lt;length - 4&gt; bytes) |
| | |
+---------------------------------------+
</pre>
<p>
All integers are big-endian signed integers. Each chunk starts with a 32-bit
integer indicating the length of the entire chunk (including the length field
itself).
</p>
<p>
There is a special case chunk that has a value of 0 for the length
(&quot;0x00000000&quot;). We call this an *empty chunk*.
</p>
<h2>Delta Groups</h2>
<p>
A *delta group* expresses the content of a revlog as a series of deltas,
or patches against previous revisions.
</p>
<p>
Delta groups consist of 0 or more *chunks* followed by the *empty chunk*
to signal the end of the delta group:
</p>
<pre>
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| | | | | |
| chunk0 length | chunk0 data | chunk1 length | chunk1 data | 0x0 |
| (4 bytes) | (various) | (4 bytes) | (various) | (4 bytes) |
| | | | | |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
</pre>
<p>
Each *chunk*'s data consists of the following:
</p>
<pre>
+---------------------------------------+
| | |
| delta header | delta data |
| (various by version) | (various) |
| | |
+---------------------------------------+
</pre>
<p>
The *delta data* is a series of *delta*s that describe a diff from an existing
entry (either that the recipient already has, or previously specified in the
bundle/changegroup).
</p>
<p>
The *delta header* is different between versions &quot;1&quot;, &quot;2&quot;, and
&quot;3&quot; of the changegroup format.
</p>
<p>
Version 1 (headerlen=80):
</p>
<pre>
+------------------------------------------------------+
| | | | |
| node | p1 node | p2 node | link node |
| (20 bytes) | (20 bytes) | (20 bytes) | (20 bytes) |
| | | | |
+------------------------------------------------------+
</pre>
<p>
Version 2 (headerlen=100):
</p>
<pre>
+------------------------------------------------------------------+
| | | | | |
| node | p1 node | p2 node | base node | link node |
| (20 bytes) | (20 bytes) | (20 bytes) | (20 bytes) | (20 bytes) |
| | | | | |
+------------------------------------------------------------------+
</pre>
<p>
Version 3 (headerlen=102):
</p>
<pre>
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| | | | | | |
| node | p1 node | p2 node | base node | link node | flags |
| (20 bytes) | (20 bytes) | (20 bytes) | (20 bytes) | (20 bytes) | (2 bytes) |
| | | | | | |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
</pre>
<p>
The *delta data* consists of &quot;chunklen - 4 - headerlen&quot; bytes, which contain a
series of *delta*s, densely packed (no separators). These deltas describe a diff
from an existing entry (either that the recipient already has, or previously
specified in the bundle/changegroup). The format is described more fully in
&quot;hg help internals.bdiff&quot;, but briefly:
</p>
<pre>
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
| | | | |
| start offset | end offset | new length | content |
| (4 bytes) | (4 bytes) | (4 bytes) | (&lt;new length&gt; bytes) |
| | | | |
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
</pre>
<p>
Please note that the length field in the delta data does *not* include itself.
</p>
<p>
In version 1, the delta is always applied against the previous node from
the changegroup or the first parent if this is the first entry in the
changegroup.
</p>
<p>
In version 2 and up, the delta base node is encoded in the entry in the
changegroup. This allows the delta to be expressed against any parent,
which can result in smaller deltas and more efficient encoding of data.
</p>
<h2>Changeset Segment</h2>
<p>
The *changeset segment* consists of a single *delta group* holding
changelog data. The *empty chunk* at the end of the *delta group* denotes
the boundary to the *manifest segment*.
</p>
<h2>Manifest Segment</h2>
<p>
The *manifest segment* consists of a single *delta group* holding manifest
data. If treemanifests are in use, it contains only the manifest for the
root directory of the repository. Otherwise, it contains the entire
manifest data. The *empty chunk* at the end of the *delta group* denotes
the boundary to the next segment (either the *treemanifests segment* or the
*filelogs segment*, depending on version and the request options).
</p>
<h3>Treemanifests Segment</h3>
<p>
The *treemanifests segment* only exists in changegroup version &quot;3&quot;, and
only if the 'treemanifest' param is part of the bundle2 changegroup part
(it is not possible to use changegroup version 3 outside of bundle2).
Aside from the filenames in the *treemanifests segment* containing a
trailing &quot;/&quot; character, it behaves identically to the *filelogs segment*
(see below). The final sub-segment is followed by an *empty chunk* (logically,
a sub-segment with filename size 0). This denotes the boundary to the
*filelogs segment*.
</p>
<h2>Filelogs Segment</h2>
<p>
The *filelogs segment* consists of multiple sub-segments, each
corresponding to an individual file whose data is being described:
</p>
<pre>
+--------------------------------------------------+
| | | | | |
| filelog0 | filelog1 | filelog2 | ... | 0x0 |
| | | | | (4 bytes) |
| | | | | |
+--------------------------------------------------+
</pre>
<p>
The final filelog sub-segment is followed by an *empty chunk* (logically,
a sub-segment with filename size 0). This denotes the end of the segment
and of the overall changegroup.
</p>
<p>
Each filelog sub-segment consists of the following:
</p>
<pre>
+------------------------------------------------------+
| | | |
| filename length | filename | delta group |
| (4 bytes) | (&lt;length - 4&gt; bytes) | (various) |
| | | |
+------------------------------------------------------+
</pre>
<p>
That is, a *chunk* consisting of the filename (not terminated or padded)
followed by N chunks constituting the *delta group* for this file. The
*empty chunk* at the end of each *delta group* denotes the boundary to the
next filelog sub-segment.
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