= Mercurial Tips =


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

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== Tips ==

 * Impatient? Enable the [[ProgressExtension|progress extension]] to get a progress bar
 * Enable the [[PagerExtension|pager extension]] to get paged output
 * Enable the [[ColorExtension|color extension]] to get colorized output
 * Confused? Use '`hg summary`' to get your bearings!
 * Use '`hg serve`', then browse your repository at 'http://localhost:8000/'
 * 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
 * Use '`hg status --rev <X>:<Y>`' to see files changes between two revisions
 * Use '`hg archive -R myrepo -r 1.0 myrepo-1.0.zip`' to build a zip file of your release.
 * See '`hg help revisions`' for the many ways to [[Topic:revisions|specify revisions]]
 * Subscribe to [[Mercurial/NewsItems|latest news]] to get email notification of new releases.
 * [[Topic:revsets|Revsets]] are a powerful query language for '`log`' and other commands
 * Mercurial has lots of features for [[PowerUser|power users]]

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