To delete a bookmark from a remote server, you must have permission to push to the server. If you can push to it, then you can: hg bookmark –delete <bookmark name> hg push –bookmark <bookmark name> See the “Working With Remote Repositories” section of the Mercurial BookmarksExtension wiki for further info. NOTE: This only removes … Read more
It depends on the version of Mercurial that you’re using. The command used to be hg push -f … or hg push –force … to force the creation of a new branch in the remote repository (which is usually OK). However, using -f also allows you to create new heads in the remote repository (usually … Read more
Yes. You will be able to do meaningful diffs for MS Word documents. If you have TortoiseHg installed and you have set up a repository, right-click the file for which you want to check the diffs. On the context menu, click TortoiseHg > Visual Diffs. In the Visual Diffs dialog, select docdiff, instead of kdiff3. … Read more
From the editor docs: Mercurial tries to pick which program to call to edit a commit message by trying the following (in order): HGEDITOR environment variable editor configuration option in [ui] section (in hgrc or passed with –config ui.editor command-line option). VISUAL environment variable EDITOR environment variable vi, if none of the above is set … Read more
To see workspace status relative to the current directory you can always use “.” (a single dot) as the argument of “hg status”, i.e.: % hg root # root of the workspace /work/foo % pwd # current directory is <root>/src /work/foo/src % hg status # no argument, see all files M etc/foo.conf # all files … Read more
Take a look at part about version control for single developer in my answer to “Difference between GIT and CVS” question here on StackOverflow. Some of those issues do still apply also to Subversion versus Git (or other distributed VCS: Mercurial, Bazaar, or less known: Monotone, Darcs), even if Subversion is improvement over CVS. DISCLAIMER: … Read more
On the one hand, SVN integration (with IDE, frameworks, wikis, …) is very mature, as well as its GUIs and code browsers (even though DVCS like Git and Mercurial progress every day). On the other hand, introducing a DVCS in an Enterprise environment is still not a trivial task: Some requirements are not easily met … Read more
Seems you are using an old emacs/vc/vc-hg version. Simply upgrading is probably the easiest solution. I had a similar problem, which I could solve bit by bit by improving small settings and even made a patch. It never really solved all. Until I upgrade to a recent emacs (and support file); I use the Aquamacs … Read more
Some subversion repositories will group logically unrelated things (i.e. projects with different version numbers and release cycles) under one trunk: . |– branches | |– project-a-1.x | `– project-a-feature-1 |– tags | |– project-a-1.0 | |– project-b-1.0 | `– project-b-1.1 `– trunk |– project-a `– project-b This kind of layout has no direct analog in … Read more