Edit your user configuration:
hg config --edit
Display help text for a Mercurial command:
hg help command_name
Initialize the current working directory as a repository:
hg init
Display the status of the repository:
hg status
Mark specific files to be tracked in the repository:
hg add filename_1 filename_2
Mark specific directories to be tracked in the repository:
hg add directory_1 directory_2
Mark all untracked files and directories to be tracked in the repository:
hg add
Stop tracking a specific file:
hg forget filename
Commit changes in all modified files to the repository’s history:
(Without -m and a message, this command runs a text editor.)
hg commit -m "Some message"
Commit changes in specific modified files to the repository’s history:
(Without -m and a message, this command runs a text editor.)
hg commit filename_1 filename_2 -m "Some message"
View the history of the repository:
hg log
Display differences between the current state of the repository and the last saved state:
hg diff
Display differences between the current state of a specific file and the last saved state:
hg diff path/to/file
Display differences between the current state of a specific file and its state in a specific earlier revision:
hg diff --rev 27 path/to/file
Display changes made to a specific file in a specific earlier revision:
hg diff --change 24 path/to/file
Erase changes to a specific file since the last commit
(modified file is saved with a .orig suffix before reverting):
hg revert path/to/file
Erase changes to a specific file since the last commit without saving .orig backup:
hg revert --no-backup path/to/file
Erase all changes since the last commit:
hg revert --all
Restore file to its state in a previous revision:
hg revert --rev 16 path/to/file
To add the URL of a clone of a repository on Bitbucket, use
hg config --local
to edit (or create) the .hg/hgrc in the repository to include:
[paths]
default = URL
To add the path of a local clone of a repository, use
hg config --local
to edit (or create) the .hg/hgrc in the repository to include:
[paths]
nickname = path/to/repository
Display a repository’s clone URLs and/or paths:
hg paths
Push changes from a local repository to a (default) Bitbucket clone of the repository:
hg push
Pull changes from a (default) Bitbucket clone of the repository:
hg pull
Pull changes from a local clone of the repository:
hg pull /path/to/repository
Pull changes from a local clone of the repository that you have added a nickname path for:
hg pull nickname
Update a repository with the changes pulled from a clone of the repository:
hg update
Merge changes pulled from another clone of the repository using the GUI kdiff3 to view and resolve conflicts:
hg merge --tool=kdiff3
Clone a repository from Bitbucket:
hg clone URL
Clone a repository from a local path:
hg clone path/to/repository
Note that when you clone a repository,
either by a URL or by a path,
the URL/path of the source repository is automatically added to the [paths] section of the new repository’s .hg/hgrc file as the default path so that hg push and hg pull just work.