Some cygwin versions exhibit a bug which affects hg and other tools. Is there any way for me to refer to an external configuration in mercurial. Once mercurial has been enabled, you may wish to adjust permission grants for your users, if you need to disable one or more user s ability to make changes in the mercurial repository. Mercurial keeps system wide configuration options in the file etc mercurial hgrc and user configuration options in. The template option to the hg log command tells mercurial to use the given text as the template when printing each changeset. This is a freeform field, but it most often contains a persons name and email address. You can also use the shorthand t option notice that the template string above ends with the text \n. If you are looking for general mercurial resources, there is excellent documentation. Mercurial lets you configure default settings for all repositories and settings specific to one repository. Please read the help on trust in mercurial and make sure that youve added the trust settings on the server. If none of the more specific forums is the right place to ask. While mercurial is pretty good at being both backward and forward compatible, we recommend that you use the same version locally.
Mercurial manual for openbravo developers openbravowiki. If you will be pulling the firefox source code or one of the derived repositories, the easiest way to configure mercurial is to run the vcssetup mach command. This can of course be configured on a perrepository basis by editing the. Mercurial will use this file to look up your personalised configuration settings. Apr 12, 2011 managing the source code for a software development project is only slightly less important than writing it in the first place. See installing mercurial from the mozilla version control guide basic configuration. Peruser configuration files are for the user running mercurial. Mercurial supports a multitude of workflows and you can easily enhance its functionality with extensions. It details the particular configuration and procedures recommended to work in an openbravo project. Mercurial mastery for beginners how mercurial works hg basics hg is the chemical sign in the periodic system for mercurial which people then to use as a nice to mercurial aka hg. I will start first with a simple config file of a project in your repository which will show how we handle our rw access. Mercurial allows you to save your source code and any other file in powerful a version system mercurial or.
How to squash commits in mercurial rhodecode enterprise. When you install mercurial, it comes with a configuration file that you update with your personal settings from a command window. You can follow our simple guide to learn how to revision your documents with mercurial, or just use the quick start to get going instantly. In addition, a mercurial configuration file can reference a set of peruser or global ignore files. For security reasons, mercurial only trusts hgrc files owned by. In addition, a mercurial configuration file can reference a set of per user or global ignore files. Windows users have the choice between a cygwin based mercurial and tortoisehg, the latter one is an allinclusive mercurial binary installer package for windows. Peruser configuration files, for the user running mercurial. The identity of the person who created the changeset. The mercurial system uses a set of configuration files to control aspects of its behavior. In git, a branch is a pointer to a node of the dag with a userdefined name. See the ignore configuration key on the ui section of hg help config for details of how to configure these files. For security reasons, mercurial only trusts hgrc files owned by the user running mercurial. Installation instructions are provided for windows, mac os x, and linux.
Apr 19, 2019 when you install mercurial, it comes with a configuration file that you update with your personal settings from a command window. You should configure mercurial before submitting patches to mozilla. Managing the source code for a software development project is only slightly less important than writing it in the first place. This example illustrates how gzip, zip and bzip2 archive formats can be. This manual explains the usage of mercurial for community developers of openbravo erp and openbravo pos. Mercurial is a fast, lightweight source control management system designed for easy and efficient handling of very large distributed projects. Per user configuration files, for the user running mercurial. This example illustrates how gzip, zip and bzip2 archive formats can be supported.
Geeklogs mercurial repository is available from this url. Sep 20, 2011 if all goes well, you should have a new mercurial installed. For example, if mercurial complains that it does not trust joe and you happen to trust him, add him to hgrc. Hi all, i have been hitting a kinda wall while trying to understand mercurial. Using hg log, or hg glog, check your repository history and choose the revision upon which you want to squash commits the commit status needs to be in draft. A short overview of mercurial s decentralized model is also available. Technically, a bookmark and a branch are both the same thing as a tag though living in different namespaces, but the expected usage is different. This issue is often encountered when configuring hooks or extensions for shared repositories or servers. The repository fails to be pulled because the mercurial client is not able to verify the servers certificate. To set a user name, use your favorite editor to create a file called.
Another user is running hg update on the repository and getting the following messages not trusting file dev. Generally, mercurial is less complex than git and thus faster to learn and less likely to put nonexpert users into perplexing situations. Mercurial allows you to save your source code and any other file in powerful a version system mercurial or hg is the name of the tool. Jun 23, 2011 mercurial is a distributed version control systems dvcs which keeps track of software revisions and allows many developers to work on a given project without necessarily being connected to a common network.
Mercurial is a distributed version control systems dvcs which keeps track of software revisions and allows many developers to work on a given project without necessarily being connected to a common network. From the command line, with the same user running fisheyecrucible. Mercurial revert back to old version and continue from there. But avoid asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers. When working with mercurial, it is often nice to publish your changes on a server as a backup or so others can examine and work with them. This article focuses on the mercurial source code management system, often simply referred to as hg. It is supported on microsoft windows and unixlike systems, such as freebsd, macos and linux mercurial s major design goals include high performance and scalability, decentralization, fully distributed collaborative development, robust handling of both plain text and binary files, and advanced branching and merging. Not trusting file from untrusted user or group ashwin uncategorized 20129 1 minute mercurial gives this error for the hgrc mercurial configuration file when the user running a mercurial command is not the same as the owner of hgrc. If the username in hgrc is empty, it has to be specified manually or in a different hgrc file e. I amwas trying to clone the hg repo of sumwars and this is what i get. Files mercurial reads configuration data from several files, if they exist. It is supported on microsoft windows and unixlike systems, such as freebsd, macos and linux mercurials major design goals include high performance and scalability, decentralization, fully distributed collaborative development, robust handling of both plain text and binary files, and advanced branching and merging. In the event that the mercurial user email is not recognized by bugzilla as a bugzilla user, the email associated with the bugzilla username used to log into bugzilla is used instead as the source of the comment.
Hgrc 8 hgrc 8 name hgrc configuration files for mercurial synopsis the mercurial system uses a set of configuration files to control aspects of its behaviour. As first step, you should teach mercurial your name. Settings from untrusted files will generally be ignored. If you will be pulling the firefox source code or one of the derived repositories, the easiest way to configure mercurial is to run the vcssetup mach commandmach vcssetup. You just have to create one there which contains a section with your user name and other configuration options you need. Options in these files apply to all mercurial commands executed by this user in any. The example above illustrates the simplest possible template. If you have level 1 commit access or higher, then you should have an ldap account which allows you to push to user repos in the users directory of hg. Unix and linux systems offer a rich selection of version control system vcs packages, each of which takes a slightly different approach to this common concern. Ive worked with git for several years and one of my favorite git posts is create a global. The repository is owned by user root, and group dev. Our repository is on a shared drive so at the moment the last user to use it is the username it keeps since by default hgrc is under the.
Adding user to already existing file can be done with. Installation instructions are provided for windows, mac os x, and. Error with fetch commits with mercurial repository. If necessary, change the commit status to draft back as far as the chosen revision, using the following command. I will start first with a simple config file of a project in your repository which will show how we. Mercurial is a distributed revisioncontrol tool for software developers.
How to search through all git and mercurial commits in the repository for a certain string. The mercurial system uses a set of configuration files to control aspects of its behaviour. Mercurial for git users and vice versa nikolaus raths. This typically happens on servers, shares or distributed filesystems. The names of these files depend on the system on which mercurial is installed. With this we create the new password file and add username. Now you add a new folder in which you want to work. Mercurial has fewer concepts that the user needs to grasp to use it effectively.