Category Archives: Mercurial

A combined Mercurial and Git PowerShell Prompt

A while ago I posted the code I use to create a custom PowerShell prompt to show the status of my Mercurial repositories. Since then I have also started using Git so I updated my prompt to work for both. … Continue reading

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Launching the TortoiseHg log more conveniently from the command line

When working with Mercurial I usually perform most tasks from the command line but often I want to be able to visually explore the history of the whole repository or of a single file.  For this I find TortoiseHg’s repository … Continue reading

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A Mercurial PowerShell Prompt

Since switching to Mercurial I often use the “hg summary” command. hg summary [--remote] aliases: sum summarize working directory state     This generates a brief summary of the working directory state, including … Continue reading

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