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Mercurial Tips

This page is a collection of short tips that can be used on the homepage.

Tip:

Confused? Use 'hg summary' to get your bearings!

Tips

Use 'hg summary' to get a synopsis of your working directory
Use 'hg serve', then browse your repository at 'http://localhost:8000/'
Enable the progress extension to get a progress bar
Enable the pager extension to get paged output
Enable the color extension to get colorized output
Use 'hg log -k <keyword>' to search your history for a keyword
Use 'hg id -i -r <rev>' to find the changeset id for a given revision or tag
See 'hg help revisions' for the many ways to specify revisions
Revsets are a powerful query language for 'log' and other commands
Use 'hg status --rev <X>:<Y>' to see files changes between two revisions
Subscribe to latest news to get email notification of new releases.
Use 'hg archive -R myrepo -r 1.0 myrepo-1.0.zip' to build a zip file of your release.

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- * Enable the [[ColorExtension|progress extension]] to get colorized output
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+ * Use '`hg status --rev <X>:<Y>`' to see files changes between two revisions
 * Subscribe to [[Mercurial/NewsItems|latest news]] to get email notification of new releases.
 * Use '`hg archive -R myrepo -r 1.0 myrepo-1.0.zip`' to build a zip file of your release.