== Local Modifications ==

The '''local modifications''' in a [[WorkingDirectory|working directory]] are the differences existing between the files in the working directory compared to their parent file [[Revision|revisions]] in the [[Repository|repository]] and all added, moved, removed or renamed files.

Those differences can be displayed by [[Cmd:diff|diff]].

Committing these local modifications produces a new [[ChangeSet|changeset]] in the repository. Mercurial uses the [[DirState|dirstate]] to quickly determine what files in the working directory have changed and thus need to be included in the commit.

If the working directory has two parent revisions (due to a [[Merge|merge]]), the local modifications will correspond to the resolution of the [[Conflict|conflicts]].

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