[Python-Dev] Mercurial conversion repositories

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:43:15 -0500
Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> 
> I'll have to remember that 'hg pull' does not update the working copy by
> default, and eventually I'll figure out the whole merge thing.

You can use "hg pull -u" to update (and "hg pull -uv" if you want to
see the list of updated files).

> One immediate thing that I'm missing from Bazaar is that 'bzr commit' invokes
> my editor and always shows me a 'diff -u' in the commit message buffer.  This
> is incredibly handy because I don't have to remember to do the diff in a
> different window, and I always have all the information I want right there to
> craft the commit message.  It doesn't look like this is possible with 'hg
> commit' though, right?

Should be customizable:
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/CommitMessageTemplate
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/DiffsInCommitMessageInVIM
(never tried myself)

Regards

Antoine.