#Sourceforge tortoisehg manual#
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Nothing further is required to make the extension work. Post-revert.TimestampMod = python:/path/to/TimestampMod.py:Hook_Post_Revert Post-resolve.TimestampMod = python:/path/to/TimestampMod.py:Hook_Post_Resolve Post-merge.TimestampMod = python:/path/to/TimestampMod.py:Hook_Post_Merge Add entries into the hooks section of the configuration file (mercurial.ini) similar to the following:: If using TortoiseHg, some of the hooks will need to be manually configured.

hgrc (or mercurial.ini file for TortoiseHg) to enable the extension by adding following lines:

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NOTE: Full up-to-date instructions can be found on the Web page: Ĭonfigure your. Functionality under other operating systems my not be one-hundred-percent reliable. It has been confirmed to work on Linux Ubuntu 12.04. It may also be worth noting that this extension was originally developed and tested on Windows XP SP3 (32-bit), Windows 7 Professional (64-bit), and, Windows 10 Professional (64-bit). Some changes in Mercurial and TortoiseHg may break the backwards-compatibility of this extension. However, there are some configuration requirements that are specific to either command line Mercurial or TortoiseHg.Īlso note that forward development of this extension is not guaranteed to remain backward-compatible with older Mercurial/Python/TortoiseHg versions. Note that only Mercurial is required for the use of this extension. Mercurial 1.8.3 (or later, included with TortoiseHg) This extension was developed for use with the following: Incorporating automatic timestamp saving and restoring into an extension allows Mercurial to add an extra level of comfort to those users who are more familiar with manually managing their version control via traditional file management. This is a behavior that can be confusing and lead to mistrust of the VCS by new users who are not yet familiar with VCS concepts. This means that the default behavior of most VCS is to set the file modification time to the time that the file was updated by the VCS instead of the original modification time.

Under any modern VCS, this timestamp information is regarded as unimportant since the VCS manages all of the revision tracking between revision records.

#Sourceforge tortoisehg manual#

Typically, manual file system based version control methods rely on copying and synchronizing files centered around file modification timestamp information. The intent of this extension is to ease the transition from manual file system based version control into the Mercurial DVCS world. This extension is based on an original TimestampExtension by Friedrich Kastner-Masilko hosted at. TimestampMod is an extension for Mercurial DVCS that incorporates automatic saving and restoring of the modification times of files under version control. This extension is not distributed with Mercurial.