hg copy usage

Thu Nov 2 05:51:02 CST 2006

* TK Soh <teekaysoh at gmail.com> [20061030 20:51]:
> I am a little unclear about the copy command. Anyone kind enough help
> clarify it's usage? Thanks.

hg copy SOURCE TARGET
echo "this file is derived from SOURCE" >> TARGET
hg commit -m "Added TARGET, which is SOURCE with small modifications."
hg pull from-a-repo-which-has-modifications-to-SOURCE
hg merge

This will apply the modifications from upstream to SOURCE and to
TARGET.

hg log --verbose --copies (or -vC)
will show that TARGET is a copy of SOURCE.

hg log --follow TARGET
will show the history of SOURCE, too.

All this assumes a recent (post 0.9.1) Mercurial.

Thomas

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