Mercurial HG HOWTO guide

In this tutorial I will cover the basic commands you will need to use mercurial.
hg help is your first friend and Mercurial Wiki is your second.

Help for Command:
$ hg help <command>
or
$ hg <command> - -help

Commands to Create, Clone Repository

To make a new repository:

$ hg init <path>

To copy a repository from an existing repository:

$ hg clone <sourcePath>  [<DestinationPath>]

To clone specific branch of the repository:

$ hg clone -r <barnchName> <sourcePath> [<destinationPath>]

To copy existing repository to a new locaiton:

$ hg clone . <newPath>

To get changes from server repository and update working set:

$ hg pull -u

To get changes for specific branch from server repository:

$ hg pull -r <branchName>

To see what changes will come in on a PULL command:

$ hg incoming

To publish changes to specific branch on server repository:

$ hg push -r <branchName>

To see what changes will go out on a PUSH command:

$ hg outgoing

Commands for Add, Remove, Rename, Copy Operation
Add Specific file to repository:
$ hg add <filename1, filename2, ...>

To remove file from repository but don't delete from file system:
$hg remove <filename1, filename2...>

To remove file from repository and delete from file system as well"
$ hg remove -f <filename1, filename2,...>

To add all new files and remove all deleted files from repository:
$ hg addremove

To move or rename files in the repository:
$ hg move <oldfilename> <newfilename>

To copy files in the repository:
$ hg copy <oldfilename> <newfilename>


Commands for Commit, Revert Changes
To commit Changes to server repository:
$ hg commit
$ hg push

To commit as a particular user:
$ hg commit -u <username>

To revert all changes in local repository:
$ hg revert -a

To revert specific changes in local repositroy
$ hg revert <filename1, filename2, ..>

Commands to View Changes
To view changes between working set on your local repository and repository tip:
$ hg diff

To view changes between working set on your local repository and specific revision:
$ hg diff -r <revisionNumber>

To view changes between two revisions:
$ hg diff -r <revisionNumber> -r <revisionNumber>

To check what are changes in working set:
$ hg status

To list all changesets:
$ hg log

Commands to Update Working Set
To change working set to tip:
$ hg pull
$ hg up

To change working set with discarding any current work:
$ hg update -C

To change working set to specific revision:
$ hg update -r <revisionNumber>

To change working set to specific branch:
$ hg update -r <branchName>

To see the list of branches available for merging:
$ hg heads



Commands for Handling tags and Branches
To delete a tag:
$ hg tag -r <tagtext>

To tag a revision:
$ hg tag [-r <revisionNumber] <tagtext>

To list tags:
$ hg tags

To create new branch:
$ hg branch <branchName>
$ hg commit -m "New Branch created <branchName>"

To delete a branch:
$ hg commit - - close-branch <branchName>

To see the list of branches available:
$ hg branches

For HG Diff command setting in .hgrc file in /home/username folder: 

[diff]
git=1
showfunc=1
unified=8


Commands related to Patch:
Generating a patch:
$ hg diff  >  patchfilename

Discarding all local changes:
$ hg revert -a