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Power User Tools
Hints for would-be power users
Contents
1. Built-in features
revsets - our powerful revision query language
filesets - our similarly powerful file query language
templating - the templater used by log and hgweb
- Aliases - built-in command substitution
2. Under-appreciated commands
log -G - graph view of commits
log -k - keyword search in commits
help -k - keyword search in help
commit --amend - amend the last commit
status --change - status output for a change
status --rev a:b - status between two changes
grep - search all of history for regular expressions
import URL - import patch(es) from a URL
3. Automation
Hooks - execute code for specific Mercurial events or commands
HGPLAIN - environment variable to disable customizations
identify - useful in makefiles
root - useful in shell scripts
log --template - useful in reporting
status -n0 - output suitable for xargs -0
4. Advanced history editing
5. Niceties for customizers
ColorExtension - shiny colors
PagerExtension - for slow readers
ProgressExtension - for the impatient
- contrib/*_completion - for the lazy
6. Debugging
help --debug - list deprecated and debugging commands
showconfig --debug - dump configuration info with paths
debuginstall - show install information
- --debug - run a command with full verbosity
- --traceback - get a complete stack trace for any exception
- --debugger - run a command with an interactive source-level debugger
debugindex - dump raw revlog graph data
debugdata - dump raw revlog revision contents data
debugstate - dump raw dirstate contents
7. Interesting reading
FileFormats - what all those files are
Behind the scenes - an overview of the internal data structures
HandlingLargeFiles - how we deal with files of many megabytes
EncodingStrategy - how character encoding works