Mercurial: alias with arguments

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I want to create an alias so that when I run:

hg pushbranch <<SOME_BRANCH>>

it aliases to:

hg push -b <<SOME_BRANCH>>

Where SOME_BRANCH is the name of a branch I wish to push. I can create an alias in my .hgrc, but don't know how I could supply an argument to the alias.

score 13 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 07 '17 at 00:45

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From the hgrc help

Positional arguments in the form of $1, $2, etc in the alias definition are expanded by Mercurial before execution.

Thus, your alias definition, which will allow to push any branch, will be

pushbranch = push -b $1

and hg pushbranch mybranch is expanded to hg push -b mybranch

edited Jun 07 '17 at 00:45

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answered Jun 24 '15 at 01:55

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In the example in the original version of this answer, %1 should be $1, but stackoverflow currently won't take an edit from me less than 6 characters. Please fix. – Juan Jun 06 '17 at 16:44

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 23 '15 at 17:33

You can simply add the arguments in your alias. Some examples from my configuration:

[alias]
log0 = log -l 10
tipr = tip --template "{node|short}"

If you provide additional arguments, they'll simply be appended. For example, the following will be functionally equivalent to log -l 10 -k Refactoring.

$ hg log0 -k Refactoring

Mercurial: alias with arguments

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