Command-Line Mercurial - Rocky Warren

I started using Mercurial, a distributed source control management tool similar to Git, about two years ago. I began interacting with it using TortoiseHg, a GUI front-end. I understand that some will always prefer a GUI, but after spending some time with the command-line interface, I'll never go back. Here is my typical work-flow:


hg status # Determine out-of-date/modified files
hg commit -message "Check-in comment" # Commit local changes
hg addremove # Add new and remove deleted files
hg pull --rebase # Pull, update to tip, and rebase changes on top
hg push --rev . # Push changes to current branch
hg pull --update # Update to tip
hg glog --limit 5 # Graphically print last 5 changesets like so:
  # o  changeset:   15949:e53d6166ec1b
  # |  parent:      15936:e8569089e24e<
  # |  user:        xxx
  # |  date:        Fri Oct 21 12:22:43 2011 -0500
  # |  summary: God mode
  # |
  # | @  changeset:   15948:e74aa8a1cf01
  # |/   parent:      15936:e8569089e24e
  # |    user:        yyy
  # |    date:        Mon Oct 24 08:56:16 2011 -0500
  # |    summary: Invisibility
  # |
  # | o    changeset:   15947:519186e7d4d1
  # | |\   parent:      15946:cd44cf7e36f3
  # | | |  user:        zzz
  # | | |  date:        Mon Oct 24 19:43:24 2011 +0530
  # | | |  summary:     100 free lives
  # | | |
  # ...

This gets me by 95% of the time and is highly efficient (try creating aliases for the commands to save even more time). For more involved tasks or to see the full graph, type 'thg' to launch TortoiseHg.

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