Questions tagged [mercurial-topics]
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Abandon Mercurial topic
What is the best way to abandon unwanted changesets currently in a Mercurial topic, which have already been pushed and cannot just be stripped?
To put the question another way, is is possible to remove a topic from the hg topics output without…

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What is the difference between Mercurial bookmarks and Evolve topics?
A lot of "git vs. hg" explanations align Mercurial bookmarks with usual git branches in terms of functionality. I'm trying to understand the differences not between Mercurial branches and git ones, but between bookmarks and topics coming from Evolve…

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How to enable Mercurial topics (is it a "live" feature yet)?
Following the tutorial at https://www.mercurial-scm.org/doc/evolution/tutorials/topic-tutorial.html I added the following to my mercurial.ini file:
[extensions]
...
evolve =
[experimental]
evolution = all
Yet when I go to the command line and…

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Mercurial topics workflow
What should be the correct workflow to deal with Mercurial topics please?
Let's suppose another developer pushed topic t1, How do I:
retrieve a topic t1?
add my work on t1 topic,
push t1 topic?
Context:
I'm trying to collaborate with other…

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How to separate topics in mercurial
I have the following structure in my mercurial branch history:
o topicA
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o topicB
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o public_branch
This is a linear dependency between the three, as we can see.
I need a hg command (or set of commands) that will result to the following…

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How to clone topics in mercurial?
Background: Mercurial Topics
Mercurial has a nice feature call topics as part of the evolve extension. These act as temporary lightweight local branches, and are an integral part of the Heptapod workflow, ensuring nice interactions with Git (via…

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