Is there a way to configure TortoiseHg to store my password? I have a project hosted on Google Code that I access using TortoiseHg. Whenever I want to push changes to Google Code TortoiseHg prompts me for a username and password. Google Code requires me to use an auto-generated password, and it gets quite repetitive … Read more
We now have a “stiging” branch, where “staging” seems to be a far better semantic fit. What’s a good strategy for handling this? 5 Answers 5
I’m looking for a counter-part of git commit –amend in Mercurial, i.e. a way to modify the commit which my working copy is linked to. I’m only interested in the last commit, not an arbitrary earlier commit. The requirements for this amend-procedure are: if possible, it should not require any extensions. It must not require … Read more
So I keep making a silly mistake in Mercurial. Often times, I’ll start work without doing an “hg pull” and an “hg update.” When I try to push my changes, I get an error. Is there any way to delete my local commits so I can avoid creating multiple heads, branches, etc? I just want … Read more
Is it possible to delete all untracked files from my working directory? Let’s say I added a bunch of files to my working directory, didn’t add them via ‘hg add’ and now want to get rid of those new files entirely? I’m on windows, although I’m using PowerShell, so a combined solution is also possible … Read more
I downloaded TortoiseHg 1.0 for evaluation. For the life of me I can’t figure out how to make a branch. It seems to understand branches (e.g. in its repository browser) but I just can’t seem to find a way to make a branch. This seems like such a fundamental capability since out of the often … Read more
I use this to remove a file from the repo: hg remove <full file path> What command can you use to do an hg remove on all files that have been deleted locally? By deleted locally, I mean those showing up with an ! when you do hg status. For adds, you can just do … Read more
I used Mercurial in a personal project, and I have been typing my username and password every time I want to push something to the server. I tried adding the following to the .hgrc file in my home directory, but it seems to be completely ignored. [ui] username = MY_USER_NAME password = MY_PASSWORD How to … Read more
Got a bluescreen in windows while cloning a mercurial repository. After reboot, I now get this message for almost all hg commands: c:\src\>hg commit waiting for lock on repository c:\src\McVrsServer held by ‘\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\ x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00’ interrupted! Google is no help. Any tips? 11 Answers 11
