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.. Copyright 2011 Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@ens-lyon.org>
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..                Logilab SA        <contact@logilab.fr>
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Evolve How To
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Add a changeset: ``commit``
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Just use commit as usual. New changesets will be in the `draft` phase.
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Rewrite a changeset: ``commit --amend``
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It writes a new changeset combining working-directory parent changes and parent.
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It will work on any `draft` or `secret` changeset. It will not work on `public`
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changesets.
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To understand what the result of amend will be I use the two following
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aliases   [#]_::
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    # diff what amend will look like
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    pdiff=diff --rev .^
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    # status what amend will look like
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    pstatus=status --rev .^
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This command can even be invoked on changesets with children, provided
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none are public.
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.. [#] (defined by the evolve extension for you)
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Move a changeset: ``grab``
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You can use ``hg grab <rev>`` to move a rev at your current location, making the
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old version obsolete.
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.. note:: grab is an alias for ``hg rebase --dest . --rev $@; hg up <result>``
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A new ``prune`` command allows removing a changeset.
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Just use ``hg prune <some-rev>``.
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Moving within the history: ``gdown`` and ``gup``
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can use ``hg gup`` to move to the child commit or ``hg gdown`` to move to the parent commit.
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Those command have ``previous`` and ``next`` alias.
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.. note:: Those commands only exist for the convenience of getting qpush and qpop
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          feeling back.
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Collapse changesets: ``fold``
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You can use ``hg fold`` to collapse multiple changesets in a single one.
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``hg fold <rev>`` folds everything from you current changeset to `<rev>`
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``hg fold -r <revset>`` fold everything changeset matching the revset together.
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The ``hg uncommit`` command lets you rewrite the parent commit without
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selected changed files. Target files content is not altered and
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appears again as "modified"::
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If you need a fine-grained split, there is no official command for that yet.
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However, it is easily achieved by manual operation::
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  ### you want to split changeset A: 42
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  # update to A parent
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  # partially commit the first part
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  # informs mercurial of what happened
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  # current changeset (.) and previous one (.^) replace A (42)
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  $ hg prune --new . --new .^ 42
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For more complexe scenario we recommend the use of the histedit_ extension.
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.. _histedit: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/HisteditExtension
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Update my current work in progress after a pull
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Whenever you are working on some changesets, it is more likely that a pull
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will, eventually, import new changesets in your tree.
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And it is likely that you will want your work in progress changesets to be
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rebased on the top of this newly imported subtree.
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Doing so is only a matter of rebasing.
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