Mercurial has the ability to add new features through the use of
extensions. Extensions may add new commands, add options to
existing commands, change the default behavior of commands, or
implement hooks.
Extensions are not loaded by default for a variety of reasons:
they can increase startup overhead; they may be meant for
advanced usage only; they may provide potentially dangerous
abilities (such as letting you destroy or modify history); they
might not be ready for prime time; or they may alter some usual
behaviors of stock Mercurial. It is thus up to the user to
activate extensions as needed.
To enable the "foo" extension, either shipped with Mercurial or
in the Python search path, create an entry for it in your
configuration file, like this:
[extensions]
foo =
You may also specify the full path to an extension:
[extensions]
myfeature = ~/.hgext/myfeature.py
To explicitly disable an extension enabled in a configuration
file of broader scope, prepend its path with !:
[extensions]
# disabling extension bar residing in /path/to/extension/bar.py
bar = !/path/to/extension/bar.py
# ditto, but no path was supplied for extension baz
baz = !
disabled extensions:
acl hooks for controlling repository access
blackbox
log repository events to a blackbox for debugging
bugzilla
hooks for integrating with the Bugzilla bug tracker
children
command to display child changesets (DEPRECATED)
churn command to display statistics about repository history
color colorize output from some commands
convert
import revisions from foreign VCS repositories into
Mercurial
eol automatically manage newlines in repository files
extdiff
command to allow external programs to compare revisions
factotum
http authentication with factotum
fetch pull, update and merge in one command (DEPRECATED)
gpg commands to sign and verify changesets
graphlog
command to view revision graphs from a shell
hgcia hooks for integrating with the CIA.vc notification
service
hgk browse the repository in a graphical way
highlight
syntax highlighting for hgweb (requires Pygments)
histedit
interactive history editing
inotify
accelerate status report using Linux's inotify service
interhg
expand expressions into changelog and summaries
keyword
expand keywords in tracked files
largefiles
track large binary files
mq manage a stack of patches
notify hooks for sending email push notifications
pager browse command output with an external pager
patchbomb
command to send changesets as (a series of) patch
emails
progress
show progress bars for some actions
purge command to delete untracked files from the working
directory
rebase command to move sets of revisions to a different
ancestor
record commands to interactively select changes for
commit/qrefresh
relink recreates hardlinks between repository clones
schemes
extend schemes with shortcuts to repository swarms
share share a common history between several working
directories
transplant
command to transplant changesets from another branch
win32mbcs
allow the use of MBCS paths with problematic encodings
win32text
perform automatic newline conversion
zeroconf
discover and advertise repositories on the local
network
