I have been using the mercurial and Beyond Compare 4 tools together for about 2 weeks now and feel fairly confident in my usage, however I still seem to have a problem when comparing incoming changesets against my current local codebase. The problem is emphasized when I attempting a complicated merge.
Just to clarify, I am avoiding the use of tools such as TortoiseHg,
although I do have it installed. I am searching for feedback via cmd line operations only.
My current templated method to pull down the incoming changesets via the following ( as an [alias] )
hg in --verbose -T "\nchangeset: \t{rev}\nbranch: \t{branch}\nuser: \t\t{author}\ndate: \t\t{date(date,'%m-%d-%Y %I:%M%p')}\ndescription: \n\t{desc|fill76|tabindent}\n\n{files % ' \t{file}\n'}\n----------\n"
As an example, here is a simplified (and cleverly abstracted) block returned ::
changeset: 4685
branch: Feature-WI209825
user: Jack Handy <jhandy#anon.com>
date: 01-19-2015 10:19AM
description:
Display monkey swinging from vines while whistling dixie
Zoo/MonkeyCage/Resources/Localization.Designer.cs
Zoo/MonkeyCage/Resources/Localization.resx
Zoo/MonkeyCage/Utility/Extensions.cs
If I were to be comparing changes locally, I would simply use the following command ::
hg bcomp -r 4685 -r default <optional file name>
and then I would get an instance of Beyond Compare with a folder structure and files and I could just navigate accordingly to view the changes...however, when I attempt to do this with a changeset that has yet to be pulled into my local repository, I can't.
How do I diff incoming changesets with my local repository?
---- UPDATE --------------------------------
I pursued the idea of bundling the incoming changes and then trying to use BC4 to diff the bundle to any given branch/revision on my local repo.
hg in --bundle "C:\Sandboxes\Temp\temp.hg"
This creates a compressed file archive containing all the new changes.
Now I simply need to diff this bundle with my local, however am having difficulty optimizing this. Currently, I am using variations on the following command:
hg -R "C:\Sandboxes\Temp\temp.hg" bcomp -r default
Alas, I am still having difficulty perfecting this...any insight is appreciated.
I don't see how you can, since your local repository doesn't yet have that changeset, so mercurial can't create a local copy of the revision, as it doesn't have visibility of what the change actually is.
The -p flag to hg incoming will show you the patch for each revision, but that isn't what you want.
Why not just pull the remote changes anyway? It wont hurt unless you actually update. You can then do your diff in the normal way.
hg diff is a local operation.
But you can simply call hg incoming -p in order to obtain a diff view of what you're going to pull. See hg help incoming for more options and refinement (e.g. if you need to diff against a specific rev etc)
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When I run hg log -r remote/project I get the last commit on that bookmark.
How can I get a full list of commits from the head of that bookmark?
This is not (easily) possible in general. You can approximate it with hg incoming from an empty repository, but hg incoming actually does a complete pull of the difference and throws the contents away; it does not scale for large repositories. Any solutions that are both practical and general involve ssh-ing into the remote machine or setting up a separate server process on the remote machine.
An intermediate approach uses hg incoming --bundle FILE -T '' (the -T '' part is to suppress normal output). This will store the difference between your local version in an overlay repository called FILE; you can then use hg log -R FILE to perform normal log commands on the overlay repository (and you can also pull from it, as though it were a snapshot of the original remote). This still relies on you having a significant portion of the repository on your local machine, or it will result in a full download of the remote repository.
I have read only permission to an hg repo and am trying to develop and test changes to it locally. The problem is that I am in the middle of changing dev machines and am caught in a weird/akward state across the two machines.
On my old machine I made lots of changes to the repo, locslly. I just cloned the repo on my new machine, but obviously that doesn't contain the changes from my old machine. I need a way to createe a patch/diff from my local working copy on my old machine, and then apply them to my local working copy on my new machine. The problem is that I already commited (hg commit -m "Blah") the changes on my old machine to the distributed repo on it.
What set of specific commands can I use to create a patch/diff of my old machine and then apply it to the repo on my new one?
Update
I commited all changes on my old machine and then ran hg serve, exposing http://mymachine.example.com:8000.
On my new machine, where I had made some different changes (locally) than the changes from my old machine, I ran hg pull http://mymachine.example.com:8000 and got:
myuser#mymachine:~/sandbox/eclipse/workspace/myapp$ hg pull http://mymachine.example.com:8000
pulling from http://mymachine.example.com:8000/
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 2 changesets with 16 changes to 10 files (+1 heads)
(run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)
So I run hg merge:
myuser#mymachine:~/sandbox/eclipse/workspace/myapp$ hg merge
abort: uncommitted changes
(use 'hg status' to list changes)
What do I do now?!?
You can use:
$ hg diff > changes.patch
To create a patch file, then:
$ patch -p1 < changes.patch
To apply that patch file on your new machine.
Well, that's actually fantastic, mercurial is a distributed version control system and you do not need to go via any patch file at all: simply pull the changes from your old machine to your new machine:
hg pull URL
where URL can be any network URL or also ssh-login, e.g.
hg pull ssh://mylogin#old.maschine.box or hg pull path/to/old/repository/on/nfs/mount
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Alternatively you can also use bundle and unbundle. They create bundles which can be imported in the new mercurial easily and keep all meta-information.
hg bundle -r XXX --base YYY > FILENAME
where YYY is a revision you know you have in your new repository. You import it into your new repo with hg unbundle FILENAME. Of course you can bundle several changesets at once by repeating the -r argument or giving a changeset range like -r X:Y.
The least comfortable method is a via diff or export:
hg export -r XXX > FILENAME or equivalent hg diff -c XXX > FILENAME where you need to import the result with patch -p1 < FILENAME or hg import FILENAME.
The easiest way is to do this is to ensure that all work on your old machine is committed. Then use this command on it from the base of your repo:
hg serve
which creates a simple http server on this repo. The monitor should state the name of the http URL it is serving.
On your new machine, just pull from that URL.
Once you've pulled your old changes you can stop the hg serve process with ^C.
The advantages of this method are that it is very quick, and that it works on just about any system. The ssh method is also quick, but it won't work unless your system is configured to use ssh.
Answer to Update
The OPs update is asking an orthogonal question about how to merge changes pulled from a server with local changes. If you haven't already done so, try to digest the information in this merge doc and this one.
Merging is for merging changesets. The error is happening because you have local changes that haven't been committed which mercurial can't merge. So the first thing to do is to commit your local changes, then you will be able to merge.
But before you merge, I strongly recommend that you are merging what you think you are merging. Either ensure there are only 2 heads, or specify which head you are merging with. When merging, you have to be at one of the heads you wish to merge; it's usually better to be at the head with the most changes since the common ancestor because the diffs are simpler.
After you've merged, don't forget to commit the merge. :-)
We have a master repository located on a separate server. I originally cloned the default branch and made my changes locally. I have locally commited those changes. However, there has been a branch created on the master repository that I would like to push my changes to. Below is the description of my attempt at getting this accomplished.
I have cloned the branch. I am trying to export my changes from local default like so:
C:\hg\default>hg export -g -o mypatch -r tip
and when trying to import them into the clone of the new branch, I get the following:
C:\hg\newBranch>hg import C:\hg\default\mypatch
applying C:\hg\Fill1\mypatch
patching file .hgignore
Hunk #1 FAILED at 11
1 out of 1 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file .hgignore.rej
abort: patch failed to apply
I can manually fix the .hgingore.rej file just fine. The problem is that the patch also contains files that were moved. Instead of the files showing as moved, I get the following when running hg status:
C:\hg\newBranch>hg status -C
M someOtherFilesThatLookAsExpected.txt
! originalLocaion\fileA.txt
? newLocation\fileA.txt
This missing and new status is for all files that were moved in the commit contained the applied patch. Am I doing something wrong? Do I always have to manually move files when applying a patch? Is there an easier way to accomplish this branch transfer?
That's a bit difficult to answer without knowing more about your repository structure, but here's how I'd go about it without knowing more. I'm assuming that the reason for the conflict is that there are conflicting changes in the same branch of the repository.
First, get the contents of the newBranch repository:
cd c:\hg\default
hg pull c:\hg\newBranch
Then, either merge or rebase your changes on top. If you are working on the same branch, then just using
hg pull --rebase c:\hg\newBranch
in lieu of the regular pull should do (assuming you have rebasing enabled). Otherwise, do an explicit merge or rebase of the two heads that you need to reconcile. Finally, do:
hg push -r tip c:\hg\newBranch
in order to get your (now reconciled) changes back into newBranch.
Unless you have very specific and unusual requirements, push and pull should be your normal way to sync repositories or part of them (note that using -r will only push/pull the respective branch). Export/import are rather low-level mechanisms that may not give you the benefits of the standard machinery that handles renames, three-way merging logic, etc.
I tried to update some files to old revision in many ways, but I haven't found yet.
(not permanently, just temporarily updating for testing)
For example, the following is OK in SVN.
svn up -r 100 foo.cpp
U foo.cpp
But in Mercurial, 'up' command doesn't permit file name argument.
Only is it possible to update entire source tree in Mercurial?
You'd have to use hg revert:
hg revert -r 100 foo.cpp
Note that this gives you local changes, as can be seen by running hg diff.
See hg help revert for more info.
This is fundamentally disallowed by Mercurial and other DVCSs. Both CVS and Subversion track which revision you have checked out on a per-file basis. You could have r1 of file x and r2 of file y. In a DVCs the entire repository is at a single version, which in Mercurial you can see with hg id.
As #Tom points out you can have modified files from different revisions, but if you want to see another revision without changes showing up you need to do the update in another clone (which given that local clones use hard links to be (a) instant and (b) space efficient) that's not much of a hassle.
I'm on dialup in lousy place (yes, it still happens in 2011), and trying to clone a huge repository. It starts without problem, but every time the dialup disconnects (which is unavoidable, it seems), the !#%$* hg rolls everything back and I'm left again with an empty directory.
Is there a solution other than doing it on a remote PC and then downloading the whole thing by FTP or something?
In a bash-like shell you could do something like this:
$ hg init myclone
$ cd myclone
$ for REV in `seq 10 10 100` ; do hg pull -r $REV <REMOTEREPO>; done
Starting at 10, each pull downloads the next 10 revisions, up to 100. In case of a lost connection, adjust the first argument to seq to match what you've already pulled.
Depending on how flaky your connection is, there are two options for performing initial clones.
First, you can try so-called “streaming clones”. These minimize Time To First Byte, but do generally require a bit more data to be transferred.
Here’s how to do a streaming clone:
$ hg clone --uncompressed https://~~~~
Your second option will be a hg clone –-rev operation, followed by a number of incremental pulls. This behaves similarly to cloning a repository in some distant past and doing occasional updates.
$ hg clone --rev 5 https://~~~~
Based on the suggestions here,
I created a repo that did this.
https://github.com/nootanghimire/hg-clone-bash
It's optimized for a single repo, but i guess you can fork and work on it! :)