Its not a good idea to hg merge changes from another branch with a patch. Tortoisehg provides a graphical tool for interacting with the distributed revision control system mercurial. General tortoisehg large file commit only 40meg is size. Find the merge base between your branch and master. Would it make sense to let tortoisemerge give a little bit more help when it comes. My guess is that the patch and the file disagree on eol. I recently read an interesting article by andy jeffries entitled 25 tips for intermediate git users linked to via proggit. Whenever you merge to a branch, you first update to the head of that branch. I also tried using the shelve extension via the command line but from what i understood from the documentation it does not offer the feature to shelve away only parts of the files. You basically just have to merge the local branch into the branch branch at regular intervals, but not the other way around.
The next point to note is that merging always takes place within a working tree. Added or removed files can be shelved but parts of the file cannot be individually selected. Do not forget to qrefresh after resolving the rejected chunks. Our shelve is patch based, so it cant use the real merge function. To reiterate, using hg, i was unable to apply a patch created by hg to a repo against which that patch was created. I have generally been very happy and have taken frequent advantage of its ability to clone and branch cheaply. Gui support is provided for over a dozen operations, including add files, commit changes, manage ignore filter, view change log, merge, recoverrollback, edit configuration, synchronize repository, and. Not only can the commit tool commit your changes, but it can also examine the state of your working directory and perform most routine maintenance tasks add new. Mercurial for git users and vice versa nikolaus raths.
Tortoisehg consists of a shell extension, which provides overlay icons and context menus in your file explorer, and a command line program named thg. The merge rejected patch chunks dialog is clumsy and inefficient in comparison to standard merge tools. In git, a branch is a pointer to a node of the dag with a userdefined name. Do you mean the builtin merge tool is merge rejected patch chunks into x dialog. Then select the commits you would like to merge into it then right click and select fold patches. Creating a branch in mercurial with tortoisehg 20140331. It saves rejected hunks also simply called rejects to a file with the same name, and an.
And they even have several tools configured in default ini file. If the source file has diverged from the file that was used to create the patch, there may be conflicts during the patch application. However, mq remains a feasible patchmanagement tool for those who. Here the patch applied cleanly to her earlier version, leaving the changes in her working directory. This guide mostly contains things youll probably pick up after just a few days working with tortoisehg, but it also contains tips i didnt learn until much later. I tried analyzing the problem, and the patch appears fine. Technically, a bookmark and a branch are both the same thing as a tag though living in different namespaces, but the expected usage is different. This uses tortoisehg patch rejection dialog and preserves the metadata in the patch header. Tortoisehg need help for push operation for getting ssh work showing 112 of 12 messages. Hi mads, im using tortoisehg as my client and i do not type a single command. This will bring up your 3way merge tool to resolve conflicts, for each. On the window resolve all rejects, making changes to the file. Patch panes the right and the left patch panes are identical save for the working copy changes are only available on the left. Any project, no matter how small, can be improved by the use of source control.
If you havent setup a merge tool, youll need to open the files that had. But the patch algorithm here is being conservative. If a patch does not import itself cleanly into the repository, the recommended recourse is to import the patch into your patch queue qimport and then qpush the patch. Tortoisehg need help for push operation for getting ssh work. It expects to find a matching clean place to apply the. The patch management problem arises in many situations. However, mq remains a feasible patchmanagement tool for those who are.
In our example, alice knows that the patch applies to her first commit. The problem is that the rejected hunks could not be applied, and for a reason. My dev team uses tortoisehg and id like to know what is the equivalent feature from sourcetree to the merge with local feature from tortoisehg. Tortoisehg has a gui and all commits, push, etc are effected through it. Import patches with conflicting changes for mercurial repository with. We should add gui for mercurials shelve extension at some time.
I am using tortoisehg for the work with different repositories and have so far with ample help from several people here mastered pretty. I have settled on mercurial through tortoisehg for my source control needs. Creating a branch in mercurial with tortoisehg code in. Facing merge problem in tortoisehg atlassian community. Rejects are pieces of a patch that dont apply cleanly. Tortoisegit provides overlay icons showing the file status, a powerful context menu for git and much more. Binary packages of tortoisehg for windows come with mercurial and a merge tool and are thus completely ready for use out of the box. It combines email reading with patch applying, and thus uses a different patch syntax. Tmerge cant apply them and show a conflict, because they cant be applied at all. The way that i sometimes handle large rejections is to rebase the patch. Ive been trying out the shelve tool and chunk selection in tortoisehg. Fix the merge hell and add a few patch chunks to unbreak.
A small window lists the files which have been changed. Tortoisehg need help for push operation for getting. If you want to merge changes into a branch, you have to have a working tree for that branch checked out, and invoke the merge wizard from that working tree using tortoisegit merge figure 2. As tortoisehg already has knowledge of a three way merge tool can it be configured to allow that to be used instead. If you click yes, it shows you a screen with the content of the file with successful chunks applied as well as each chunk that was rejected, to allow you to manually do the changes a little easier and mark each as resolved. You can view the queue of patches bottom left of tortoisehg by selecting view show patch. So i think the first thing is to submit a patch for tortoisehg project to add winmerge. The most useful thing you can do with most interface changes is to reject them. Nearly every mercurial feature is accessible from the workbench. Its a good idea to have a look at the merge and see if its as expected. It allows you to browse your local repositories, make commits, perform searches, synchronize with other repositories, and perform various maintenance tasks. However, since tortoisehg is seeing this a single chunk i can either shelve both or none of the changes.
This invariably leads to that some patches generates rejected patch hunks. How is the shelve tool and chunk selection supposed to work. It had lots of useful information condensed into bitesized taskoriented chunks. To avoid losing work, you must manually apply these rejected changes, then hg qrefresh. This makes the changeset you commit to persist that merge be on that branch as well. This allows developers to construct and commit changes as logical chunks. With tortoisesvn you would merge 100200 this time and 200 next time. Mercurial is still not ready for primetime jason r. If you are merging revisions in chunks, the method shown in the subversion book will have you merge 100200 this time and 200300 next time.
If you frequently commit small, poorlydefined chunks of work to a public. Public git conversion mirror of openbsds official cvs ports repository. The remote developers patch has now been applied to your working copy, so you need to. Import patches with conflicting changes for mercurial. Tortoisehg allows you to email a patch file of your changes to someone, but does it support applying patches. The commit tool is second most commonly used application after the workbench.
When the last rejected chunk has been resolved, the save button gets enabled, but pressing this does not actually save the resolved file. Tortoisehg recent versions include a rejects editor. This is expected since some of the modifications in the working copy conflicts with the data provided in the patchfile. Selectable chunks are only displayed if the file is text and is in a modified state. Now that there are more tortoise clients around tortoisecvs, tortoisehg.
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