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merge: expand and simplify the invalid handling for directory moves
author Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
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1 What is "hg purge"?
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2 ===================
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3 "purge" is a simple extension for the Mercurial source control management
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4 system (http://www.selenic.com/mercurial).
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5 This extension adds a "purge" command to "hg" that removes files not known
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6 to Mercurial, this is useful to test local and uncommitted changes in the
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7 otherwise clean source tree.
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9 This means that Mercurial will delete:
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10 - Unknown files: files marked with "?" by "hg status"
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11 - Ignored files: files usually ignored by Mercurial because they match a
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12 pattern in a ".hgignore" file
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13 - Empty directories: infact Mercurial ignores directories unless they
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14 contain files under source control managment
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15 But it will leave untouched:
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16 - Unmodified files tracked by Mercurial
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17 - Modified files tracked by Mercurial
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18 - New files added to the repository (with "hg add")
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20 Be careful with "hg purge", you could irreversibly delete some files you
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21 forgot to add to the repository. If you only want to print the list of
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22 files that this program would delete use:
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23 hg purge --print
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25 To get the most recent version of "hg purge" visit its home page:
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26 http://www.barisione.org/apps.html#hg-purge
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28 This program was inspired by the "cvspurge" script contained in CVS utilities
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29 (http://www.red-bean.com/cvsutils/).
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32 How to install
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33 ==============
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34 The purge extension is distributed with Mercurial, to activate it you need to
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35 put these lines in your ~/.hgrc:
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37 [extensions]
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38 hgext.purge=
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40 For more information on the configuration files see the man page for "hgrc":
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41 man 5 hgrc
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44 How to use "hg purge"
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45 ====================
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46 For help on the usage of "hg purge" use:
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47 hg help purge
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50 License
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51 =======
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52 Copyright (C) 2006 - Marco Barisione <marco@barisione.org>
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54 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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55 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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56 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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57 GNU General Public License for more details.
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59 A copy of the GNU General Public License is distributed along
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60 with Mercurial in the file COPYING.