HgExternals Extension

This extension is not distributed with Mercurial.

Author: Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com>

Repository: http://bitbucket.org/tarek/hgexternals/

Overview

A Mercurial extension that simulates in some ways Subversion's externals features.

The current version supports external repositories that are either Subversion or Mercurial.

Configuration

Configure your .hgrc to enable the extension by adding following lines:

[extensions]
hgexternals=/path/to/hgexternals.py

or place hgexternals.py in your 'hgext' directory and add the following lines:

[extensions]
hgext.hgexternals=

Usage

(This is only a description of the basic usage.)

Create an .hgexternals file:

cat > .hgexternals
hgexternals http://bitbucket.org/tarek/hgexternals/
externals/python http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk svn -r1
^D

Pull in externals:

hg externals

For more information, see "hg help externals".


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HgExternals (last edited 2010-01-20 13:53:32 by ScottDial)