Mercurial bookmarks offer a way to work on separate short-lived tasks in the same repo without having to create a separate clone.
For me bookmarks lack two features: tracking all changesets belonging to a particular task, and being able to push completed tasks easily while ensuring that incomplete tasks are not pushed.
I decided to try to [...]
When reading the many git-vs-mercurial blog posts I noticed lots of comments about how mercurial lacked the lightweight branching of git. Then came a lot of rebuttals saying “well hg has bookmarks, so that’s not true anymore”. But when I tried them, I was surprised by their behaviour. If you had two bookmarks pointing to [...]
I’ve written a small extension for mercurial called ‘config’. It allows you to view and set configuration values for hg from the command-line.
Some example commands and output:
prompt> hg showconfigs
! /usr/etc/mercurial/hgrc
* /etc/mercurial/hgrc
* /etc/mercurial/hgrc.d/hgext.rc (ro)
* /etc/mercurial/hgrc.d/mergetools.rc (ro)
* /home/jdoe/.hgrc
* /home/jdoe/projects/hgconfig/.hg/hgrc
prompt> hg config –verbose ui.username
values found for ui.username:
jdoe@host C:\Documents and Settings\jdoe\mercurial.ini
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