What is HG flow?

What is HG flow?

Hgflow is an open-source extension for Hg inspired by git-flow (Why aren’t you using git-flow?) and built around Vincent Driessen’s popular Git branching model.

How do you run a mercurial?

Here’s how:

1. cd into the project directory.
2. run the command hg init This creates the . hg directory and the initial setup files used by hg.
3. run the command hg add This adds all files that aren’t currently in the hg project file list to it’s file list.
4. run the command hg commit This commits all changes to the project.

What is hg purge?

2. 27. hg purge –all will delete all un-tracked and ignored files. This is useful for cleaning up in-source builds. – tacaswell.

Does anyone use Mercurial?

According to Chan, less than 1 per cent of new Bitbucket users choose Mercurial as their version control system. And she cites data from StackOverflow’s 2018 Developer Survey that’s no less damning: 87 per cent of developers use Git and only about 4 per cent user Mercurial.

How do you revert hg?

Revert changes already committed

1. To backout a specific changeset use hg backout -r CHANGESET . This will prompt you directly with a request for the commit message to use in the backout.
2. To revert a file to a specific changeset, use hg revert -r CHANGESET FILENAME . This will revert the file without committing it.

Is HG better than Git?

Mercurial Is Safer For Less Experienced Users By default, Mercurial doesn’t allow you to change history. However, Git allows all involved developers to change the version history. Obviously, this can have disastrous consequences. With basic Mercurial, you can only change your last commit with “hg commit – amend”.

Is Mercurial dying?

Mercurial isn’t dead. But Atlassian’s Bitbucket support for Mercurial is. There are many teams who still have Mercurial repositories. So, Mercurial is very much alive.

Is Mercurial still used?

It’s also referred to as a revision control system or Mercurial source control. It is used by software development teams to manage and track changes across projects. It launched in 2005. But its popularity has since faded.

What does hg revert do?

hg revert changes the file content only and leaves the working copy parent revision alone. You typically use hg revert when you decide that you don’t want to keep the uncommited changes you’ve made to a file in your working copy.

How do I undo hg revert?

Caveat: Doing hg remove [file] on an unmodified file removes the file from the filesystem. In this case, hg add [file] fails and to add it back you have to do hg revert [file] . hg add [file] is the correct answer for files that have been modified prior to removal.

What does hg backout do?

Revert/undo the effect of an earlier changeset. Backout works by applying a changeset that’s the opposite of the changeset to be backed out. That new changeset is committed to the repository, and eventually merged.

What is hgflow?

Hgflow is an open-source extension for Hg inspired by git-flow (Why aren’t you using git-flow?) and built around Vincent Driessen’s popular Git branching model. In essence it formalizes the workflow around Driessen’s model and provides commands for branching and merging features, releases, and hotfixes within that model.

Do you use distributed version control with hgflow?

It’s easy to be a fan of distributed version control and not only does Hg work very well within my workflow but fits nicely with my tech stack (FogBugz + Kiln by day and Bitbucket + AppHarbor by night). Very recently I was introduced to hgflow having played with it for a few days across several projects I’ve become a big fan.

Where do I Save my hgflow files?

I saved it directly to C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Kiln Client\\hgflow-v0.4.py. Hgflow itself appears to have branched a few times and updated version appear to be available by others but yinwm’s appears to be the original and most followed.

How do I add a mercurial file to Hg?

The extension is a single Python file, to add it into Hg just update your hg ini file, mine is at: C:\\Users\\%USERNAME%\\Mercurial.ini: For the following walkthrough I’m going to create a simple repository and demonstrate creating our first feature and release branch.