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1 1 Ancestor
2 2 Any changeset that can be reached by an unbroken chain of parent
3 3 changesets from a given changeset. More precisely, the ancestors
4 4 of a changeset can be defined by two properties: a parent of a
5 5 changeset is an ancestor, and a parent of an ancestor is an
6 6 ancestor. See also: 'Descendant'.
7 7
8 8 Branch
9 9 (Noun) A child changeset that has been created from a parent that
10 10 is not a head. These are known as topological branches, see
11 11 'Branch, topological'.If a topological branch is named, it becomes
12 12 a named branch. If a topological branch is not named, it becomes
13 13 an anonymous branch. See 'Branch, anonymous' and 'Branch, named'.
14 14
15 15 Branches may be created when changes are pulled from or pushed to
16 16 a remote repository, since new heads may be created by these
17 17 operations. Note that the term branch can also be used informally
18 18 to describe a development process in which certain development is
19 19 done independently of other development.This is sometimes done
20 20 explicitly with a named branch, but it can also be done locally,
21 21 using bookmarks or clones and anonymous branches.
22 22
23 23 Example: "The experimental branch".
24 24
25 25 (Verb) The action of creating a child changeset which results in
26 26 its parent having more than one child.
27 27
28 28 Example: "I'm going to branch at X".
29 29
30 30 Branch, anonymous
31 31 Every time a new child changeset is created from a parent that is not
32 32 a head and the name of the branch is not changed, a new anonymous
33 33 branch is created.
34 34
35 35 Branch, closed
36 36 A named branch whose branch heads have all been closed.
37 37
38 38 Branch, default
39 39 The branch assigned to a changeset when no name has previously been
40 40 assigned.
41 41
42 42 Branch head
43 43 See 'Head, branch'.
44 44
45 45 Branch, named
46 46 A collection of changesets which have the same branch name. By
47 47 default, children of a changeset in a named branch belong to the
48 48 same named branch. A child can be explicitly assigned to a
49 49 different branch. See :hg:`help branch`, :hg:`help branches` and
50 50 :hg:`commit --close-branch` for more information on managing
51 51 branches.
52 52
53 53 Named branches can be thought of as a kind of namespace, dividing
54 54 the collection of changesets that comprise the repository into a
55 55 collection of disjoint subsets. A named branch is not necessarily
56 56 a topological branch. If a new named branch is created from the
57 57 head of another named branch, or the default branch, but no
58 58 further changesets are added to that previous branch, then that
59 59 previous branch will be a branch in name only.
60 60
61 61 Branch tip
62 62 See 'Tip, branch'.
63 63
64 64 Branch, topological
65 65 Every time a new child changeset is created from a parent that is
66 66 not a head, a new topological branch is created. If a topological
67 67 branch is named, it becomes a named branch. If a topological
68 68 branch is not named, it becomes an anonymous branch of the
69 69 current, possibly default, branch.
70 70
71 71 Changelog
72 72 A record of the changesets in the order in which they were added
73 73 to the repository. This includes details such as changeset id,
74 74 author, commit message, date, and list of changed files.
75 75
76 76 Changeset
77 77 A snapshot of the state of the repository used to record a change.
78 78
79 79 Changeset, child
80 80 The converse of parent changeset: if P is a parent of C, then C is
81 81 a child of P. There is no limit to the number of children that a
82 82 changeset may have.
83 83
84 84 Changeset id
85 85 A SHA-1 hash that uniquely identifies a changeset. It may be
86 86 represented as either a "long" 40-byte hexadecimal string, or a
87 87 "short" 12-byte hexadecimal string.
88 88
89 89 Changeset, merge
90 90 A changeset with two parents. This occurs when a merge is
91 91 committed.
92 92
93 93 Changeset, parent
94 94 A revision upon which a child changeset is based. Specifically, a
95 95 parent changeset of a changeset C is a changeset whose node
96 96 immediately precedes C in the DAG. Changesets have at most two
97 97 parents.
98 98
99 99 Checkout
100 100 (Noun) The working directory being updated to a specific
101 101 revision. This use should probably be avoided where possible, as
102 102 changeset is much more appropriate than checkout in this context.
103 103
104 104 Example: "I'm using checkout X."
105 105
106 106 (Verb) Updating the working directory to a specific changeset. See
107 107 :hg:`help update`.
108 108
109 109 Example: "I'm going to check out changeset X."
110 110
111 111 Child changeset
112 112 See 'Changeset, child'.
113 113
114 114 Close changeset
115 115 See 'Changeset, close'.
116 116
117 117 Closed branch
118 118 See 'Branch, closed'.
119 119
120 120 Clone
121 121 (Noun) An entire or partial copy of a repository. The partial
122 122 clone must be in the form of a revision and its ancestors.
123 123
124 124 Example: "Is your clone up to date?".
125 125
126 126 (Verb) The process of creating a clone, using :hg:`clone`.
127 127
128 128 Example: "I'm going to clone the repository".
129 129
130 130 Closed branch head
131 131 See 'Head, closed branch'.
132 132
133 133 Commit
134 134 (Noun) A synonym for changeset.
135 135
136 136 Example: "Is the bug fixed in your recent commit?"
137 137
138 138 (Verb) The act of recording changes to a repository. When files
139 139 are committed in a working directory, Mercurial finds the
140 140 differences between the committed files and their parent
141 141 changeset, creating a new changeset in the repository.
142 142
143 143 Example: "You should commit those changes now."
144 144
145 145 Cset
146 146 A common abbreviation of the term changeset.
147 147
148 148 DAG
149 149 The repository of changesets of a distributed version control
150 150 system (DVCS) can be described as a directed acyclic graph (DAG),
151 151 consisting of nodes and edges, where nodes correspond to
152 152 changesets and edges imply a parent -> child relation. This graph
153 153 can be visualized by graphical tools such as :hg:`glog`
154 (graphlog). In mercurial, the DAG is limited by the requirement
154 (graphlog). In Mercurial, the DAG is limited by the requirement
155 155 for children to have at most two parents.
156 156
157 157 Default branch
158 158 See 'Branch, default'.
159 159
160 160 Descendant
161 161 Any changeset that can be reached by a chain of child changesets
162 162 from a given changeset. More precisely, the descendants of a
163 163 changeset can be defined by two properties: the child of a
164 164 changeset is a descendant, and the child of a descendant is a
165 165 descendant. See also: 'Ancestor'.
166 166
167 167 Diff
168 168 (Noun) The difference between the contents and attributes of files
169 169 in two changesets or a changeset and the current working
170 170 directory. The difference is usually represented in a standard
171 171 form called a "diff" or "patch". The "git diff" format is used
172 172 when the changes include copies, renames, or changes to file
173 173 attributes, none of which can be represented/handled by classic
174 174 "diff" and "patch".
175 175
176 176 Example: "Did you see my correction in the diff?"
177 177
178 178 (Verb) Diffing two changesets is the action of creating a diff or
179 179 patch.
180 180
181 181 Example: "If you diff with changeset X, you will see what I mean."
182 182
183 183 Directory, working
184 184 The working directory represents the state of the files tracked by
185 185 Mercurial, that will be recorded in the next commit. The working
186 186 directory initially corresponds to the snapshot at an existing
187 187 changeset, known as the parent of the working directory. See
188 188 'Parents, working directory'. The state may be modified by changes
189 189 to the files introduced manually or by a merge. The repository
190 190 metadata exists in the .hg directory inside the working directory.
191 191
192 192 Graph
193 193 See DAG and :hg:`help graphlog`.
194 194
195 195 Head
196 196 The term 'head' may be used to refer to both a branch head or a
197 197 repository head, depending on the context. See 'Head, branch' and
198 198 'Head, repository' for specific definitions.
199 199
200 200 Heads are where development generally takes place and are the
201 201 usual targets for update and merge operations.
202 202
203 203 Head, branch
204 204 A changeset with no descendants on the same named branch.
205 205
206 206 Head, closed branch
207 207 A changeset that marks a head as no longer interesting. The closed
208 208 head is no longer listed by :hg:`heads`. A branch is considered
209 209 closed when all its heads are closed and consequently is not
210 210 listed by :hg:`branches`.
211 211
212 212 Head, repository
213 213 A topological head which has not been closed.
214 214
215 215 Head, topological
216 216 A changeset with no children in the repository.
217 217
218 218 History, immutable
219 219 Once committed, changesets cannot be altered. Extensions which
220 220 appear to change history actually create new changesets that
221 221 replace existing ones, and then destroy the old changesets. Doing
222 222 so in public repositories can result in old changesets being
223 223 reintroduced to the repository.
224 224
225 225 History, rewriting
226 226 The changesets in a repository are immutable. However, extensions
227 227 to Mercurial can be used to alter the repository, usually in such
228 228 a way as to preserve changeset contents.
229 229
230 230 Immutable history
231 231 See 'History, immutable'.
232 232
233 233 Merge changeset
234 234 See 'Changeset, merge'.
235 235
236 236 Manifest
237 237 Each changeset has a manifest, which is the list of files that are
238 238 tracked by the changeset.
239 239
240 240 Merge
241 241 Used to bring together divergent branches of work. When you update
242 242 to a changeset and then merge another changeset, you bring the
243 243 history of the latter changeset into your working directory. Once
244 244 conflicts are resolved (and marked), this merge may be committed
245 245 as a merge changeset, bringing two branches together in the DAG.
246 246
247 247 Named branch
248 248 See 'Branch, named'.
249 249
250 250 Null changeset
251 251 The empty changeset. It is the parent state of newly-initialized
252 252 repositories and repositories with no checked out revision. It is
253 253 thus the parent of root changesets and the effective ancestor when
254 254 merging unrelated changesets. Can be specified by the alias 'null'
255 255 or by the changeset ID '000000000000'.
256 256
257 257 Parent
258 258 See 'Changeset, parent'.
259 259
260 260 Parent changeset
261 261 See 'Changeset, parent'.
262 262
263 263 Parent, working directory
264 264 The working directory parent reflects a virtual revision which is
265 265 the child of the changeset (or two changesets with an uncommitted
266 266 merge) shown by :hg:`parents`. This is changed with
267 267 :hg:`update`. Other commands to see the working directory parent
268 268 are :hg:`summary` and :hg:`id`. Can be specified by the alias ".".
269 269
270 270 Patch
271 271 (Noun) The product of a diff operation.
272 272
273 273 Example: "I've sent you my patch."
274 274
275 275 (Verb) The process of using a patch file to transform one
276 276 changeset into another.
277 277
278 278 Example: "You will need to patch that revision."
279 279
280 280 Pull
281 281 An operation in which changesets in a remote repository which are
282 282 not in the local repository are brought into the local
283 283 repository. Note that this operation without special arguments
284 284 only updates the repository, it does not update the files in the
285 285 working directory. See :hg:`help pull`.
286 286
287 287 Push
288 288 An operation in which changesets in a local repository which are
289 289 not in a remote repository are sent to the remote repository. Note
290 290 that this operation only adds changesets which have been committed
291 291 locally to the remote repository. Uncommitted changes are not
292 292 sent. See :hg:`help push`.
293 293
294 294 Repository
295 295 The metadata describing all recorded states of a collection of
296 296 files. Each recorded state is represented by a changeset. A
297 297 repository is usually (but not always) found in the ``.hg``
298 298 subdirectory of a working directory. Any recorded state can be
299 299 recreated by "updating" a working directory to a specific
300 300 changeset.
301 301
302 302 Repository head
303 303 See 'Head, repository'.
304 304
305 305 Revision
306 306 A state of the repository at some point in time. Earlier revisions
307 307 can be updated to by using :hg:`update`. See also 'Revision
308 308 number'; See also 'Changeset'.
309 309
310 310 Revision number
311 311 This integer uniquely identifies a changeset in a specific
312 312 repository. It represents the order in which changesets were added
313 313 to a repository, starting with revision number 0. Note that the
314 314 revision number may be different in each clone of a repository. To
315 315 identify changesets uniquely between different clones, see
316 316 'Changeset id'.
317 317
318 318 Revlog
319 319 History storage mechanism used by Mercurial. It is a form of delta
320 320 encoding, with occasional full revision of data followed by delta
321 321 of each successive revision. It includes data and an index
322 322 pointing to the data.
323 323
324 324 Rewriting history
325 325 See 'History, rewriting'.
326 326
327 327 Root
328 328 A changeset that has only the null changeset as its parent. Most
329 329 repositories have only a single root changeset.
330 330
331 331 Tip
332 332 The changeset with the highest revision number. It is the changeset
333 333 most recently added in a repository.
334 334
335 335 Tip, branch
336 336 The head of a given branch with the highest revision number. When
337 337 a branch name is used as a revision identifier, it refers to the
338 338 branch tip. See also 'Branch, head'. Note that because revision
339 339 numbers may be different in different repository clones, the
340 340 branch tip may be different in different cloned repositories.
341 341
342 342 Update
343 343 (Noun) Another synonym of changeset.
344 344
345 345 Example: "I've pushed an update".
346 346
347 347 (Verb) This term is usually used to describe updating the state of
348 348 the working directory to that of a specific changeset. See
349 349 :hg:`help update`.
350 350
351 351 Example: "You should update".
352 352
353 353 Working directory
354 354 See 'Directory, working'.
355 355
356 356 Working directory parent
357 357 See 'Parent, working directory'.
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