When trying to use any hg Mercurial commands on the console, I keep getting this error. I installed Python using Homebrew and I am running Mac OS Catalina v. 10.15.1. Any reference would be appreciated. Here is the error I’m getting: hg commit –amend ERROR:root:code for hash md5 was not found. Traceback (most recent call … Read more
Locked. This question and its answers are locked because the question is off-topic but has historical significance. It is not currently accepting new answers or interactions. Inspired by Git for beginners: The definitive practical guide. This is a compilation of information on using Mercurial for beginners for practical use. Beginner – a programmer who has … Read more
I’ve finished working on a feature branch feature-x. I want to merge results back to the default branch and close feature-x in order to get rid of it in the output of hg branches. I came up with the following scenario, but it has some issues: $ hg up default $ hg merge feature-x $ … Read more
I’m using Mercurial locally for a project (it’s the only repo there’s no pushing/pulling to/from anywhere else). To date it’s got a linear history. However, the current thing I’m working on I’ve now realized is a terrible approach and I want to go back to the version before I started it and implement it a … 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
This question already has answers here: Converting Mercurial folder to a Git repository (8 answers) Closed 3 years ago. I need to convert a mercurial project to a git project, but I would like to keep the commit history intact. My current solution was to just remove hg related files and then git init && … Read more
I have a Git repository with few branches and dangling commits. I would like to search all such commits in repository for a specific string. I know how to get a log of all commits in history, but these don’t include branches or dangling blobs, just HEAD’s history. I want to get them all, to … Read more
I want mercurial to remove several files from the current state of the repository. However, I want the files to exist in prior history. How do forget and remove differ, and can they do what I want? 5 Answers 5
This question already has answers here: Mercurial: how to amend the last commit? (8 answers) Closed 4 years ago. I am currently using TortoiseHg (Mercurial) and accidentally committed an incorrect commit message. How do I go about editing this commit message in the repository? 12 Answers 12
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
