Tutorial - Sharing a change with another repository
(This page is part 5 of 9 of the [:Tutorial] series. Previous part is [:TutorialFirstChange], next part is [:TutorialExport])
In [:TutorialFirstChange], we created a [:ChangeSet:changeset] in the my-hello-new-output [:Repository:repository]. Now we want to propagate that change somewhere else.
Following good Mercurial style, let's first [:Clone:clone] our original repository.
$ cd .. $ hg clone my-hello my-hello-share updating working directory 2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
We can use the tip command to find out what the [:Tip:tip] in each repository is. (Remember, the tip is the most recent changeset.) We pass in the -q ("be quiet") option to keep Mercurial from printing a complete description of the tip.
$ cd my-hello-share $ hg -q tip 1:82e55d328c8c $ cd ../my-hello-new-output $ hg -q tip 2:86794f718fb1
As we can see, the tip is different in each. Let's go back to my-hello-share and propagate our new changeset in there. To do this, we use the pull command, which [:Pull:pulls] all changesets that are in the other repository, but not yet in this one, into this one.
$ cd ../my-hello-share $ hg pull ../my-hello-new-output pulling from ../my-hello-new-output searching for changes adding changesets adding manifests adding file changes added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files (run 'hg update' to get a working copy)
Unlike other common Mercurial commands, pull is chatty. In this case, the pull has succeeded.
The last line of output is important. By default, Mercurial does not update the [:WorkingDirectory:working directory] after a pull. This means that although the repository now contains the changeset, the file hello.c in the working directory still has its old pre-pull contents.
We can [:Update:update] this file (and any others that were changed during the pull) by following Mercurial's reminder (we use the abbreviation up):
$ hg up 1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
At this point, we can check and see that my-hello-share and my-hello-new-output have identical contents and revision histories.
To share a change with another person, we continue to [:TutorialExport].