Mercurial

Misc

hg

config file

• Windows: C:\Users\<User>\mercurial.ini
• Linux: ~/.hgrc

Username/Mail

If you are using the commandline, make sure to add to your config file:

[ui]
username = John Doe <john@example.com>

aliases

mercurial command line log as one line per commit

Windows: add:

[alias]
logline = log --template "{node|short} | {date|isodatesec} | {author|user}: {desc|strip|firstline}\n"

Linux: add: (the only difference to Windows is " vs '

[alias]
logline = log --template '{node|short} | {date|isodatesec} | {author|user}: {desc|strip|firstline}\n'

ssh

Normally you will want to use the default OS ssh. So add the following to the config file:

[ui]
ssh = ssh -C

The "-C" seems to enable compression. Not sure yet, but I keep it for now.

IF you can normally ssh to the other machine with

ssh v-rooster

then now you should be able to do a

hg -v push ssh://v-rooster/work/repo1/

or pull or clone or whatever you want to do.

You can give a name and/or port like this:

hg -v push ssh://user@v-rooster:port/work/repo1/

but it would make more sense to configure your port to connect correctly. Example under Windows 10, modify your C:\Users\<user>\.ssh\config

 Host v-rooster
   HostName        1.2.3.4
   User            meaMario
   Port            22
   IdentityFile   C:\Users\<user>\.ssh\id_rsa-no-pw

paths

If you don't want to write the server and path all the time, add the following to the config file:

[paths]
default = ssh://v-deb-dev2/work/src/
v-deb-dev1 = ssh://v-deb-dev1/work/src/
v-deb-dev2 = ssh://v-deb-dev2/work/src/
v-deb-dev3 = ssh://v-deb-dev3/work/src/

You guessed it, 'default' is the entry which is used, when you don't give a remote target. It is NOT necessary to have it as normal path AND default, but I like it that way.

If you want to see these with hg:

hg paths

If you clone a repository, your default is of course the source of the clone.

TortoiseHG

Why does hg not work?

After you installed TortoiseHG, add the path to the install directory of TortoiseHG to the PATH variable. (Start/Settings/System/About/System Info/Advanced system settings/Environment Variables...)