What are the most important special / dot files when using a hg repo ?
Like configuration files and similar.
There are a lot of files that a Mercurial repo will use for configuration or keep track of state, but here are the ones that have the best chance to come in handy:
.hg/last-message.txt -- used by hg commit to store backup of the commit message in case the commit fails.
Example:
My commit message!
.hg/localtags -- define local tags which are not shared among repositories.
Example:
8a7b128ab80b58fc2e63258c9e2bf1f58a5be7c2 myfirsttag
08ff3a0b2e5af9a74becbfdf3e92d6e9a2d0c960 secondtag
6535d105ea795a38808481b160314f9857736c53 thirdtag
.hgignore -- regular expressions that describe file names that should be ignored by hg.
Example:
syntax: glob
*.elc
*.orig
*.rej
*~
*.mergebackup
*.o
*.so
*.dll
*.exe
*.pyd
*.pyc
.hg/hgrc -- defaults and configuration values for mercurial.
Example:
[ui]
verbose = True
username = Joe User <[email protected]>
[extensions]
hgext.churn = /home/user/hg/hg/contrib/churn.py
[hgk]
path = /home/user/hg/hg/contrib/hgk
.hgsub -- locations of all subrepositories and where subrepository checkouts came from.
Example:
subrepo1 = https://[email protected]/user/repo
subrepo2 = https://[email protected]/user2/repo2
.hgtags -- contains changeset hash values and text tag names
Example(same format as localtags):
8a7b128ab80b58fc2e63258c9e2bf1f58a5be7c2 myfirsttag
08ff3a0b2e5af9a74becbfdf3e92d6e9a2d0c960 secondtag
6535d105ea795a38808481b160314f9857736c53 thirdtag