Unbreaking Mercurial

[pozorvlak]

I've been using Mercurial (also known as hg) as the version-control system for a project at work. I'd heard good things about it - a Git-like system with a cleaner UI and better documentation - and was glad of the excuse to try it out. Unfortunately, I was disappointed by what I found. The docs are good, and the UI's a bit cleaner, but it's still

Comments

[anonymous]

Indeed, git will keep the rebased commits while hg, by default, will not. However, either histedit and rebase of hg has --keep option, and you can put them in [default] section of .hgrc.

[pozorvlak]

Excellent, thanks! Does it keep them in the history graph, or as bundles?

[arnebab]

You can have a look at mutable history. It provides a really strong story for safe, convenient history rewriting (similar to git, but it actually helps you to rewrite unpublished history in a team): http://hg-lab.logilab.org/doc/mutable-history/html/