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Revert the effect of an earlier changeset in Mercurial
Answer:
In Mercurial, if you want to revert the effect of an earlier changeset, even the changes have been pushed to remote, it is still possible with the hg backout command.
1. Find the revision you want to backout using hg log
# hg log
2. Assume you want to backout to the revision 99, then you can
# hg backout -r 99
Show ignored files in Mercurial
Answer:
To show list of files are currently ignored by Mercurial, e.g. to check if your .hgignore is working.
You can use the following command in your working repository:
# hg st -i
Install git under Ubuntu
Answer:
Thanks to the github, git is becoming more and more popular, seems it is becoming the de facto standard of distributed version control tool for now.
To install it under Ubuntu, you need one command:
# sudo apt-get -y install git-core
Than you can clone existing repos on github easily.
# git clone https://github.com/joyent/node.git
Setting up a username in Mercurial
Answer:
To setup your Mercurial's username, you need to create the file .hgrc in your home folder,
e.g.
# touch ~/.hgrc
And add the following lines:
[ui]
username = John Doe <[email protected]>Clone a remote Mercurial repository over SSH
Answer:
To clone a remote Mercurial repository over SSH, is easy with the following command.
E.g.
# hg clone ssh://john@remote-host//remote-folder /local-folder
The key is the double slash //
That's it.
