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Make a clean copy of a source tree, like CVS export

hg clone source export
rm -rf export/.hg

The same thing, but for a tagged release

hg clone --noupdate source export-tagged
cd export-tagged
hg update mytag
rm -rf .hg

See diffs when editing commit message with VIM

Make a private copy of the 'hgeditor' script provided with mercurial and replace the call to the editor with following command:

vim "+e $HGTMP/diff" '+set buftype=help filetype=diff' "+vsplit $HGTMP/msg" || exit $?

This will start up VIM in vertical split mode with commit message in the left pane and diff in the right pane. The buftype=help setting for diff window tells vim to exit when all other windows are closed, so when you write and quit the log with :x (:wq - they are equivalent), vim exits. If you have syntax highlight set up, the diff will be properly highlighted.

This setting is suitable for wide terminals. If you have a narrow terminal, you may want to replace the +vsplit above with +split or add nowrap to the +set.

See diffstat of pulled changes

Place the following script (named "pull-diffstat" here) somewhere in your $PATH:

test -n "$NODE" || exit 0
PARENT=`hg parents $NODE | head -1 | awk -F':' '{print $3}'`
TIP=`hg tip | head -1 | awk -F':' '{print $3}'`
echo "diffstat for $PARENT to $TIP"
hg diff -r $PARENT -r tip | diffstat

Add a changegroup entry to the [hooks] section of hgrc:

[hooks]
changegroup = pull-diffstat

Now you will see a diffstat of the new changes to your repo every time you do "hg pull".

A script to use the OS X FileMerge application to perform merges

LOCAL=$1
BASE=$2
OTHER=$3

# Attempt to do a non-interactive merge
cp $LOCAL $LOCAL.orig
if merge $LOCAL $BASE $OTHER 2> /dev/null; then
  # success!
  rm $LOCAL.orig
  exit 0
fi

cp $LOCAL.orig $LOCAL
# opendiff "succeeds" as long as FileMerge launches. No way to tell if the
# merge is any good but to ask...
opendiff "$OTHER" "$LOCAL" -ancestor "$BASE" -merge "$LOCAL"
echo "Merge of $LOCAL successful?"
select answer in yes no
do
  if test "$answer" == "yes"
  then
    rm $LOCAL.orig
    exit 0
  elif test "$answer" == "no"
  then
    exit 1
  fi
done

echo "filemerge: failed"
exit 1

One liner to remove unknown files with a pattern

To make these work, replace the ls -l with you command (ie. rm). You can also tweak the parameters passed to hg status

hg status -nu0 | grep -z pattern | xargs -0r ls -l

The above command requires a current version of GNU grep. If you don't have one, you can use the following:

hg status -nu | grep pattern | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0r ls -l