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Problem

How to use the hg command: Mercurial - a distributed source control management system. Some subcommands such as commit have their own usage documentation. More information: <https://www.mercurial-scm.org/help/commands>.

Solution

hg — Mercurial - a distributed source control management system. Some subcommands such as commit have their own usage documentation. More information: <https://www.mercurial-scm.org/help/commands>.

Create an empty Mercurial repository:

hg init

Clone a remote Mercurial repository from the internet:

hg clone {{https://example.com/repo}}

View the status of a local repository:

hg status

Add all new files to the next commit:

hg add

Commit changes to version history:

hg commit {{[-m|--message]}} {{message_text}}

Push local changes to a remote repository:

hg push

Pull any changes made to a remote:

hg pull

Reset everything the way it was in the latest commit:

hg update {{[-C|--clean]}}; hg purge

Code Snippets

Create an empty Mercurial repository

hg init

Clone a remote Mercurial repository from the internet

hg clone {{https://example.com/repo}}

View the status of a local repository

hg status

Add all new files to the next commit

hg add

Commit changes to version history

hg commit {{[-m|--message]}} {{message_text}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/hg

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