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Rewritten install instructions for hg-purge to match new situation, fixed typos.
author Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas@intevation.de>
date Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:28:28 +0200
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18 - New files added to the repository (with "hg add") 18 - New files added to the repository (with "hg add")
19 19
20 Be careful with "hg purge", you could irreversibly delete some files you 20 Be careful with "hg purge", you could irreversibly delete some files you
21 forgot to add to the repository. If you only want to print the list of 21 forgot to add to the repository. If you only want to print the list of
22 files that this program would delete use: 22 files that this program would delete use:
23 hg purge -vn 23 hg purge --print
24 24
25 To get the most recent version of "hg purge" visit its home page: 25 To get the most recent version of "hg purge" visit its home page:
26 http://www.barisione.org/apps.html#hg-purge 26 http://www.barisione.org/apps.html#hg-purge
27 27
28 This program was inspired by the "cvspurge" script contained in CVS utilities 28 This program was inspired by the "cvspurge" script contained in CVS utilities
29 (http://www.red-bean.com/cvsutils/). 29 (http://www.red-bean.com/cvsutils/).
30 30
31 31
32 How to install 32 How to install
33 ============== 33 ==============
34 Obviously you need an installed version of Mercurial to use this extension. 34 The purge extension is distributed with Mercurial, to activate it you need to
35 "purge" has been tested with Mercurial 0.8.1 and 0.9 but it may work with 35 put these lines in your ~/.hgrc:
36 other versions as well.
37 36
38 Put the "purge.py" file in a directory of your choice. Enable the extension
39 inserting an instruction like "purge=/path/you/choose/purge.py" in the
40 "[extensions]" section of a configuration file read by "hg".
41
42 For instance if you installed the script in "/home/USER/hg-purge/", you
43 can create a file named ".hgrc" in your home directory with the following
44 content:
45 [extensions] 37 [extensions]
46 purge=/home/USER/hg-purge/purge.py 38 hgext.purge=
47 Note that using "~/USER/hg-purge/purge.py" does not work with hg 0.9.
48 39
49 For more information on the configuration files see the man page for "hgrc": 40 For more information on the configuration files see the man page for "hgrc":
50 man 5 hgrc 41 man 5 hgrc
51 42
52 43
64 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 55 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
65 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 56 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
66 GNU General Public License for more details. 57 GNU General Public License for more details.
67 58
68 A copy of the GNU General Public License is distributed along 59 A copy of the GNU General Public License is distributed along
69 with this program in the file COPYING.GPL. 60 with Mercurial in the file COPYING.