Mercurial external precommit hook: get changed files list - mercurial

I could get it either with
hg status --change $HG_NODE
or with
hg log -r $HG_NODE --style mycustomstyle
But I can't get HG_NODE in precommit hook. Is there any workaround?

If
hg status --change $HG_NODE
is what you want, I guess you could just use:
hg status

$HG_NODE is not available in precommit since the changeset was not created yet
You may use the pretxncommit instead (Run after a new changeset has been created in the local repository, but before the transaction completes that will make it permanent)
Note that since the changeset is already 'done', modifications made to sources by the hooks will not be applied in the current changeset.
I'm currently trying to update a source file with the current changeset while committing, but I didn't found a solution yet

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Mercurial list files from changegroup

I want a simple command to get the list of files which differ after pushing to a mercurial repository on a server,
that is the differences between the previous push and the current push.
On the server, I have a hook on the changegroup event which calls a bash script.
$HG_NODE is the revision for the first commit in the changegroup.
My attempts:
hg status --rev $HG_NODE::
Exclude changes made in the first commit
hg status --rev $HG_NODE^1::
Includes changes that affected the parent revision through others pushes.
hg log -v --rev $HG_NODE:: | grep ^files
Include committed then reverted changes, still has 'files:' and files are not one per line
hg status --rev $HG_NODE:: && hg status change --rev $HG_NODE
Does not give exactly what I want, rather the change between the parent to the first commit in the changegroup + the change between this one (instead of the two changesets merged)
hg status --rev some_tag ; hg tag --remove some_tag ; hg tag --local some_tag
(Have not tried, is it a good idea?) Uses a local tag to keep track of the head for the last push, updates it each time.
Also I want to only monitor the default branch, so I assume I will use something like --rev "revision and branch(default)" or the branch option for hg log.
As to why, I need to go through the changes to determine parameters for an automated build.
hg stat -r is to list the removed files. To get the list of files which differ, you should use hg st --rev as follows.
hg st -m --rev tip^:tip

How to Switch the branch an commit with Tortoise Hg?

I have two branches named X and Y. X is previously created and y is the latest one. Now I am at branch 'Y' and I have modified some files. I need to commit the files which I have modified and I need to commit the changes to 'X' branch instead of 'Y' branch. How can I do this with Mercury Hg or Tortoise Hg? (How to Switch to 'x' branch and commit the changes?)
You could
Commit it to Y branch
Then transplant/grave it to X branch
Then strip changeset from Y branch
As result it's look like you commited it to X instead of Y
If you have not committed the changes then you should be able to do the following:
hg update X
hg commit
Unless you've changed some of the same files in the same places within the file, this should be sufficient. If you have, then your hg update X command should fail. You have a few options at this point.
You can use Mercurial Queues (mq).
You can put your current changes into a patch queue:
hg qnew stufftomove -e
You'll be presented with whatever editor you use to create a commit message. Go ahead and fill in your commit message with whatever you want it to be when it is ultimately committed. If you don't use -e, it will just create the patch queue with no commit message. Later you can make a commit message with hg qrefresh -e if you want.
After the patch queue is created, pop it off with:
hg qpop
Now move to the X branch:
hg update X
Now push the patch queue on. This will apply the patch file:
hg qpush
This can either go on cleanly, or if you did have merge conflicts, you'll get a message that .rej files have been created. Those show you the parts of the changes that could not be applied automatically.
If you have .rej files, manually apply the pieces that didn't work and then run
hg qrefresh
This will update the patch file with the new changes.
When everything looks like what you want it to, you can convert the patch queue to a real commit with
hg qfinish stufftomove
Your file changes should now be committed on the branch you want them to be on.
Alternatively, if you already committed the changes on the wrong branch, and have not pushed your changes (or had them pulled) to a remote repository, you can do this:
hg qimport -r <revision to import>
At this point, continue the above instructions starting with hg qpop.
If you can be more specific about the state of the files and branches, I can help more specifically. In any case, I hope this helps.
Side note: If you've got merge conflicts in the steps above and don't like dealing with .rej files, you can use hg rebase which will allow you to resolve the conflicts in your favorite merge tool (or whatever tool you've got configured). Hope this helps.
I use Shelving for such operation: https://tortoisehg.bitbucket.io/manual/2.9/shelve.html
While you're on 'Y' branch, put all your changes to shelf. Then switch to 'X' branch and restore changes from your shelf.

Mercurial pushing update to previous revision

I ran hg update -r REVISION to revert a branch to a previous revision, but when I try to push this to a remote repository it says "no changes found". How can I accomplish this?
To revert the files to a previous revision you can use
hg revert -r REVISION
This will change your working directory files to what they were at that revison. Then you
will need to commit these changes before pushing.
hg update -r REVISION changes the working directory's parent to be that revision as well as changes the contents of the working directory to that revision. This is not what you want here.
hg update only affects the state of your working directory, not the repository itself. If you want to "undo" the effects of one or more previous revisions, you will need to change the repository by committing a new changeset that reflects those changes. You could do it manually but hg's builtin backout command makes this easy to do. See a brief description here. There is a detailed explanation of backout here.

Amending a "public" changeset in Mercurial

I'd like to amend my last commit, but running
hg commit --amend
gives me
abort: cannot amend public changesets
even though I know that it's safe to edit the changeset. How can I change the phase of my last commit and/or tell Mercurial that it's safe to amend?
On the Mercurial wiki, there's a good overview of phases.
To convert the current commit from "public" to "draft" commit in order to allow amending, use
hg phase --draft --force .
(or replace . with another revision if you want to edit a different changeset).

How do I merge local changes if any (other changes otherwise) in Mercurial?

There are two heads on my repository. I have five files that I've edited locally. The Bitbucket repo has 15 changed files that I haven't edited, but it also contains changed versions of the same 5 files.
I'd like to do the following:
1) If I've edited a file and the Bitbucket repo contains the same edited file, I'd like my changes to take preference.
2) If I haven't edited a file, I'd like to update to the latest version.
What sequence of commands in Mercurial will let me do this? Do I have to use an external program?
WITH LOCAL COMMITS
hg pull
hg update --rev ${my version}
hg merge --rev ${their version} --tool internal:local
See also hg help merge-tools
WITHOUT LOCAL COMMITS
hg status -qn gives you a list of files you have changed. Since it's only five files, I'd copy them away manually, then revert, pull, update and copy them back into place. On unix you could write a throw-away shell script, something that goes kinda' like this:
ls -l *.mine # check to see that there are none
for file in `hg status -qn`; do cp ${file} ${file}.mine; done
hg revert --all; hg pull; hg update
for file in *.mine; do cp ${file} ${file%.mine}; done
This is untested code. Run it at your own risk. Eat muffins and be happy.
just do
hg pull
hg merge
This will pull the latest changes from bitbucket and allow you to merge your local changes the way you want.
This is really a basic functionality, you should read some documentation about mercurial, for example HG Init like said in the comments.