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Martin Gergov
Martin Gergov

Reputation: 1660

Repository specific special / dot files in Mercurial

What are the most important special / dot files when using a hg repo ?

Like configuration files and similar.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1999

Answers (1)

Martin Gergov
Martin Gergov

Reputation: 1660

There are a lot of files that a Mercurial repo will use for configuration or keep track of state, but here are the ones that have the best chance to come in handy:

.hg/last-message.txt -- used by hg commit to store backup of the commit message in case the commit fails. Example:

My commit message!

.hg/localtags -- define local tags which are not shared among repositories. Example:

8a7b128ab80b58fc2e63258c9e2bf1f58a5be7c2 myfirsttag
08ff3a0b2e5af9a74becbfdf3e92d6e9a2d0c960 secondtag
6535d105ea795a38808481b160314f9857736c53 thirdtag

.hgignore -- regular expressions that describe file names that should be ignored by hg. Example:

syntax: glob

*.elc
*.orig
*.rej
*~
*.mergebackup
*.o
*.so
*.dll
*.exe
*.pyd
*.pyc

.hg/hgrc -- defaults and configuration values for mercurial. Example:

[ui]
verbose = True
username = Joe User <[email protected]>
[extensions]
hgext.churn = /home/user/hg/hg/contrib/churn.py
[hgk]
path = /home/user/hg/hg/contrib/hgk

.hgsub -- locations of all subrepositories and where subrepository checkouts came from. Example:

subrepo1 = https://[email protected]/user/repo
subrepo2 = https://[email protected]/user2/repo2

.hgtags -- contains changeset hash values and text tag names Example(same format as localtags):

8a7b128ab80b58fc2e63258c9e2bf1f58a5be7c2 myfirsttag
08ff3a0b2e5af9a74becbfdf3e92d6e9a2d0c960 secondtag
6535d105ea795a38808481b160314f9857736c53 thirdtag

Upvotes: 2

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