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# help.py - help data for mercurial
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# Copyright 2006 Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
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#
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# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms
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# of the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference.
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from i18n import _
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helptable = (
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(["dates"], _("Date Formats"),
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_(r'''
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Some commands allow the user to specify a date:
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backout, commit, import, tag: Specify the commit date.
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log, revert, update: Select revision(s) by date.
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Many date formats are valid. Here are some examples:
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"Wed Dec 6 13:18:29 2006" (local timezone assumed)
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"Dec 6 13:18 -0600" (year assumed, time offset provided)
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"Dec 6 13:18 UTC" (UTC and GMT are aliases for +0000)
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"Dec 6" (midnight)
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"13:18" (today assumed)
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"3:39" (3:39AM assumed)
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"3:39pm" (15:39)
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"2006-12-06 13:18:29" (ISO 8601 format)
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"2006-12-6 13:18"
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"2006-12-6"
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"12-6"
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"12/6"
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"12/6/6" (Dec 6 2006)
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Lastly, there is Mercurial's internal format:
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"1165432709 0" (Wed Dec 6 13:18:29 2006 UTC)
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This is the internal representation format for dates. unixtime is
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the number of seconds since the epoch (1970-01-01 00:00 UTC). offset
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is the offset of the local timezone, in seconds west of UTC (negative
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if the timezone is east of UTC).
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The log command also accepts date ranges:
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"<{date}" - on or before a given date
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">{date}" - on or after a given date
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"{date} to {date}" - a date range, inclusive
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"-{days}" - within a given number of days of today
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''')),
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(["patterns"], _("File Name Patterns"),
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_(r'''
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Mercurial accepts several notations for identifying one or more
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files at a time.
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By default, Mercurial treats filenames as shell-style extended
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glob patterns.
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Alternate pattern notations must be specified explicitly.
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To use a plain path name without any pattern matching, start a
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name with "path:". These path names must match completely, from
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the root of the current repository.
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To use an extended glob, start a name with "glob:". Globs are
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rooted at the current directory; a glob such as "*.c" will match
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files ending in ".c" in the current directory only.
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The supported glob syntax extensions are "**" to match any string
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across path separators, and "{a,b}" to mean "a or b".
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To use a Perl/Python regular expression, start a name with "re:".
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Regexp pattern matching is anchored at the root of the repository.
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Plain examples:
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path:foo/bar a name bar in a directory named foo in the root of
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the repository
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path:path:name a file or directory named "path:name"
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Glob examples:
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glob:*.c any name ending in ".c" in the current directory
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*.c any name ending in ".c" in the current directory
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**.c any name ending in ".c" in the current directory, or
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any subdirectory
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foo/*.c any name ending in ".c" in the directory foo
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foo/**.c any name ending in ".c" in the directory foo, or any
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subdirectory
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Regexp examples:
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re:.*\.c$ any name ending in ".c", anywhere in the repository
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''')),
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(['environment', 'env'], _('Environment Variables'),
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_(r'''
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HG::
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Path to the 'hg' executable, automatically passed when running hooks,
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extensions or external tools. If unset or empty, an executable named
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'hg' (with com/exe/bat/cmd extension on Windows) is searched.
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HGEDITOR::
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This is the name of the editor to use when committing. See EDITOR.
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(deprecated, use .hgrc)
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HGENCODING::
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This overrides the default locale setting detected by Mercurial.
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This setting is used to convert data including usernames,
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changeset descriptions, tag names, and branches. This setting can
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be overridden with the --encoding command-line option.
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HGENCODINGMODE::
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This sets Mercurial's behavior for handling unknown characters
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while transcoding user inputs. The default is "strict", which
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causes Mercurial to abort if it can't translate a character. Other
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settings include "replace", which replaces unknown characters, and
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"ignore", which drops them. This setting can be overridden with
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the --encodingmode command-line option.
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HGMERGE::
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An executable to use for resolving merge conflicts. The program
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will be executed with three arguments: local file, remote file,
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ancestor file.
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(deprecated, use .hgrc)
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HGRCPATH::
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A list of files or directories to search for hgrc files. Item
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separator is ":" on Unix, ";" on Windows. If HGRCPATH is not set,
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platform default search path is used. If empty, only .hg/hgrc of
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current repository is read.
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For each element in path, if a directory, all entries in directory
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ending with ".rc" are added to path. Else, element itself is
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added to path.
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HGUSER::
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This is the string used for the author of a commit.
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(deprecated, use .hgrc)
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EMAIL::
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If HGUSER is not set, this will be used as the author for a commit.
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LOGNAME::
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If neither HGUSER nor EMAIL is set, LOGNAME will be used (with
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'@hostname' appended) as the author value for a commit.
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VISUAL::
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This is the name of the editor to use when committing. See EDITOR.
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EDITOR::
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Sometimes Mercurial needs to open a text file in an editor
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for a user to modify, for example when writing commit messages.
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The editor it uses is determined by looking at the environment
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variables HGEDITOR, VISUAL and EDITOR, in that order. The first
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non-empty one is chosen. If all of them are empty, the editor
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defaults to 'vi'.
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PYTHONPATH::
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This is used by Python to find imported modules and may need to be set
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appropriately if Mercurial is not installed system-wide.
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''')),
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(['revs', 'revisions'], _('Specifying Single Revisions'),
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_(r'''
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Mercurial accepts several notations for identifying individual
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revisions.
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A plain integer is treated as a revision number. Negative
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integers are treated as offsets from the tip, with -1 denoting the
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tip.
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A 40-digit hexadecimal string is treated as a unique revision
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identifier.
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A hexadecimal string less than 40 characters long is treated as a
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unique revision identifier, and referred to as a short-form
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identifier. A short-form identifier is only valid if it is the
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prefix of one full-length identifier.
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Any other string is treated as a tag name, which is a symbolic
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name associated with a revision identifier. Tag names may not
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contain the ":" character.
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The reserved name "tip" is a special tag that always identifies
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the most recent revision.
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The reserved name "null" indicates the null revision. This is the
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revision of an empty repository, and the parent of revision 0.
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The reserved name "." indicates the working directory parent. If
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no working directory is checked out, it is equivalent to null.
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If an uncommitted merge is in progress, "." is the revision of
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the first parent.
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''')),
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(['mrevs', 'multirevs'], _('Specifying Multiple Revisions'),
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_(r'''
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When Mercurial accepts more than one revision, they may be
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specified individually, or provided as a continuous range,
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separated by the ":" character.
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The syntax of range notation is [BEGIN]:[END], where BEGIN and END
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are revision identifiers. Both BEGIN and END are optional. If
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BEGIN is not specified, it defaults to revision number 0. If END
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is not specified, it defaults to the tip. The range ":" thus
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means "all revisions".
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If BEGIN is greater than END, revisions are treated in reverse
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order.
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A range acts as a closed interval. This means that a range of 3:5
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gives 3, 4 and 5. Similarly, a range of 4:2 gives 4, 3, and 2.
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''')),
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(['diffs'], _('Diff Formats'),
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_(r'''
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Mercurial's default format for showing changes between two versions
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of a file is compatible with the unified format of GNU diff, which
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can be used by GNU patch and many other standard tools.
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While this standard format is often enough, it does not encode the
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following information:
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- executable status
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- copy or rename information
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- changes in binary files
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- creation or deletion of empty files
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Mercurial also supports the extended diff format from the git VCS
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which addresses these limitations. The git diff format is not
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produced by default because there are very few tools which
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understand this format.
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This means that when generating diffs from a Mercurial repository
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(e.g. with "hg export"), you should be careful about things like
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file copies and renames or other things mentioned above, because
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when applying a standard diff to a different repository, this extra
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information is lost. Mercurial's internal operations (like push and
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pull) are not affected by this, because they use an internal binary
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format for communicating changes.
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To make Mercurial produce the git extended diff format, use the
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--git option available for many commands, or set 'git = True' in the
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[diff] section of your hgrc. You do not need to set this option when
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importing diffs in this format or using them in the mq extension.
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''')),
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)
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