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#hg++ - power tools for mercurial
Do you keep multiple clones of your repository on your system and find keeping them merged and fresh a chore?
Then this is the tool for you.
hgpp --help
Show help. Probably more up-to-date than this readme.
hgpp
Default command - lists the current branch name for each configured repo.
hgpp pull
Does an hg pull on each repo. -u to also update.
hgpp push
Does an hg push on each repo.
hgpp merge
First does an hg pull, and then attempts to merge. The project will be skipped if:
hgpp multimerge foo-branch bar-branch
Runs merge commands on several branches in a row. This command operates on the path you run the command, rather than on each project specified in the config. It accepts a space-separated list of "fragments" it will use to try match on a branch name (e.g. a jira case number).
hgpp config
Print your current .hgpp config file location and contents.
####Install the tool (globally):
npm install hgpp -g
####Make a .hgpp config file in your home directory:
(a empty config file will be generated the first time you run hgpp if it does not find a config file at the expected location)
~/.hgpp for unix
c:/users/foobar/.hgpp for Windows
This config file is standard JSON:
{
"projects": [
{ "path": "C:\\code\\myproj" },
{ "path": "C:\\code\\myproj_clone1" },
{ "defaultBranch": "temporary-other-default", "path": "C:\\code\\myproj_clone2" }
],
"maxConcurrent": 3,
"easymergeCmd": "customHgCommand"
}
Specify paths to your projects.
Optionally specify a different default branch - this is useful when you're branching off of a parent branch and want to keep in sync with that parent rather than default. If no value is provided, this defaults to default.
maxConcurrent is optional, and specifies how many simultaneous mercurial actions it will try perform. Defaults to 3.
easymergeCmd is optional, and allows specifying a custom mercurial command to use with the hgpp multimerge feature. Without specifying this it will do hg merge default
FAQs
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We found that hgpp demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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