Description

aHg is a simple Emacs front-end for the Mercurial (Hg) Distributed Source Control Management (SCM) system.

Its aims are simplicity and ease of use. It was inspired by DVC, but it focuses exclusively on Mercurial instead of supporting multiple Distributed SCMs.

For a list of features, see the Quick Guide section below.

Download

An hg repository can be found at http://bitbucket.org/agriggio/ahg/

Installation

Put ahg.el in a directory where Emacs can find it (e.g. in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp). Alternatively, you can explicitly add the directory of ahg.el to Emacs' load-path, by adding this to your .emacs file:

(setq load-path (cons "/dir/of/ahg/" load-path))

Then, simply add this to your .emacs:

(require 'ahg)

Quick Guide

After the installation, an aHg menu appears as a child of the standard Tools menu of Emacs. The available commands are:

Status:

Shows the status of the current working directory, much like the cvs-examine command of PCL-CVS.

Log Summary:

Shows a table with a short change history of the current working directory.

Detailed Log:

Shows a more detailed change history of the current working directory.

Commit Current File:

Commits the file you are currently visiting.

View Changes of Current File:

Displays changes of current file wrt. the tip of the repository.

Mercurial Queues:

Support for basic commands of the mq extension.

Execute Hg Command:

Lets you execute an arbitrary hg command. The focus goes to the minibuffer, where you can enter the command to execute. You don't have to type hg, as this is implicit. For example, to execute hg outgoing, simply enter outgoing. Pressing TAB completes the current command or file name.

Help on Hg Command:

Shows help on a given hg command (again, use TAB to complete partial command names).

License

The program is released under the GNU GPL License.