Mercurial Tips
This page is a collection of short tips that can be used on the homepage.
Tip: Mercurial has lots of features for power users |
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 revision
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