Show mercurial configuration (--debug includes file paths)
hg config
hg config --debug
Edit mercurial config (Scope: local -l, user -e, global -g)
hg config <scope>
Create new mercurial repository
hg init
hg init <folder>
Show status of changed files in working directory
hg status
hg st
Show status relative to current folder or specified path
hg status .
hg status <path>
Add untracked files (all / specific)
hg add
hg add <file>
Show diff of pending changes since last commit
hg diff
Commit current changes
hg commit -m "<message>"
hg ci -m "<message>"
Pull in latest changes (fetches only, does not update working copy)
hg pull
Repository summary, root directory and branch heads
hg summary
hg root
hg heads
Show last commit diff
hg show
Show commit history (summary / verbose / diffs)
hg log
hg log -v
hg log -p
Info about a specific file or commit (summary / diff)
hg log <path>
hg log -p <path>
hg log -r <rev-id>
hg log -p -r <rev-id>
Example history variations (-f starts at your current commit and moves backwards)
hg log -f
hg log --graph
hg log --style=compact
Show a summary of the files that changed for a rev set
hg status --change <rev-id>
Grep for a specific string in file history commit messages or diffs
hg log <path> | grep <search-string>
hg log -p <path> | grep <search-string>
Grep mercurial history over time range for changes (eg. for last week "date(-7)")
hg histgrep -r "<time-range>" "<search-string>" <path>
Amend an existing commit with current changes (-m to update commit message)
hg amend
hg amend -m "<new-message>"
To amend and change the commit message via editor
hg commit --amend
hg ci --amend
Abandon changes and update to clean master state
hg up master --clean
Remove untracked files (--all to purge everything including ignored temp files)
hg purge
hg purge --all
Revert changes to an uncommitted file (return to clean, pre-edit state)
hg revert <file>
Revert a file to an earlier version in history (.~1 for current parent)
hg revert -r <rev-id> <file>
hg revert -r .~1 <file>
Fold the current commit to the specified revision
hg fold --from -r <rev-id>
Combine the current commit with the previous commit
hg fold --from .^
Check out the diff to split and uncheck the items you want to move to the next commit
hg split
Add new bookmark to current commit
hg bookmark <bookmark>
hg book <bookmark>
Add bookmark to specific commit
hg book -r <rev-id> <bookmark>
Show current bookmarks (local and all)
hg book
hg book -a
Delete existing bookmark
hg book -d <bookmark>
Rename existing bookmark
hg book --rename <old-bookmark> <new-bookmark>
Move bookmark label (-f is force, -r is for revision identifier)
hg book -f -r <destination-rev-id> <bookmark>
Show a list of new incoming remote bookmarks
hg incoming -B
Interactively reorder, combine, or delete commits
hg histedit
Remove commit completely
hg strip <rev-id>
Move revision and decedents (commits below it not on target branch) to destination
hg rebase –d <destination> –b <rev-id>
Move revision and ancestors (commits above it) to destination
hg rebase –d <destination> –s <rev-id>
Recover from a failed rebase or merge
hg rebase --abort
Resolve merge conflict and continue rebase (after manual fix)
hg resolve --mark <file>
hg rebase --continue
Cherry pick and move revisions onto destination (specify multiple revisions with "<rev-id1> + <rev-id2>")
hg rebase –d <destination> –r <rev-id>
hg rebase –d master –r "bug3765 + 530273"
Reset bisect state to begin a fresh bisect, and mark the current state as bad
hg bisect --reset
hg bisect --bad
Choose a known good point as close to now as possible (eg. 7 days ago) and mark it as good
hg bisect --good 'first(date(-7) and public())'
Check the state and mark as good or bad until the problem revision is found
hg bisect --good
hg bisect --bad
End bisect and return to the current checkout revision
hg bisect --reset
Bisect and run unit test per check (First reset and mark good/bad commits)
hg bisect --command '<test-commands>'
Check current sparse config
hg sparse
Add sparse configs
hg sparse --enable-profile <sparse-profile>
Refresh sparse checkout
hg sparse --refresh
Backout revisions one at a time in reverse order, from newest (top) commit to earliest (bottom) commit
hg backout -r <rev>
Squash all backed out revisions to a single commit
hg checkout -r <top-rev>
hg squash -r <bottom-rev>
Update the commit message with additional details including message, summary, test plan, reviewed by (self)
hg commit --amend
Commit IDs contain local and global unique identifiers separated by :
xxxxlocal:xxxxglobal