"hg archive" command description

[Pietro Moras]

>
 what you find confusing
   In
the official “Mercurial Command Reference” [Mercurial 2.8.0] this
is the first descriptive sentence offered about the “archive”
command: “By
default, the revision used is the parent of the working directory;
use -r/--rev to specify a different revision.”
I'm currently toiling over a “Technical Report” to the
benefit of a community of users who certainly deserve better than that. Also
Mercurial tool deserves better than that, and I'm glad to have found
in this Forum collaborative colleagues kindly answering my naïve
questions. I'll keep relying on their support. Thanks!See you
soon. 
- P.M.
 > From: simon at simonking.org.uk> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 18:40:07 +0000> Subject: Re: "hg archive" command description> To: studio-pm at hotmail.com> CC: bhood2 at comcast.net; mercurial at selenic.com> > Hi Pietro,> > Can you tell us what you find confusing in the output from "hg help> archive", so that we can perhaps reword it for future users?> > Thanks,> > Simon> > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Pietro Moras <studio-pm at hotmail.com> wrote:> >>  I hope that makes things clearer.> >> > Definitely clearer. Now I'm ready for practical tests.> > Then I'll dare let you know if any further doubts (I'm engaged in a thorough> > exploration of Mercurial as available on an advanced IDE, that's to justify> > such apparently fussy questions of mine). Thanks!> > - P.M.> >> >> >> > ________________________________> > Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 09:26:18 -0700> > From: bhood2 at comcast.net> > To: studio-pm at hotmail.com> > CC: mercurial at selenic.com> >> > Subject: Re: "hg archive" command description> >> > On 2/24/2014 8:36 AM, Pietro Moras wrote:> >> > Fine Bob,> >    I begin to see.> > Now, what's the use & purpose of option "--prefix"?> > Thanks for your answer.> >> >> > The command name, "archive", actually indicates that the working copy will> > be converted into an archive.  This is defined by the command as a single> > file that is in a supported "archive" format (e.g., "zip").  It will also> > just copy, file-for-file, each entry in the working copy to the destination> > location, making a copy of the working folder itself.  This is the default> > behavior.> >> > If you indicate an actual "archive" format, then you have the option to> > change the prefix for the files that are stored in the archive.  So, for> > example, say I create a Zip archive of a local working copy on my Windows> > machine:> >> >    hg archive %TMP%\workingcopy.zip> >> > Then Mercurial will create a Zip archive where the files in the working> > folder will be contained in a single top folder called "workingcopy/".  You> > can use the "--prefix" command to change the actual containing folder.  So,> > this command:> >> >    hg archive --prefix bob %TMP%\workingcopy.zip> >> > Would make an archive where working folder files are contained in a "bob/"> > folder instead.> >> > I hope that makes things clearer.> >> > _______________________________________________> > Mercurial mailing list> > Mercurial at selenic.com> > http://selenic.com/mailman/listinfo/mercurial> > 		 	   		  
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