Help for delete Old Revision

Matt Harbison mharbison72 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 30 02:00:56 UTC 2015


On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 20:31:54 -0400, Ernie Rael <err at raelity.com> wrote:

> On 7/29/2015 8:50 AM, Matt Mackall wrote:
>> .
>> You'll want to use the convert extension to do an hg->hg conversion with
>> a startrev. The resulting repository will be "incompatible" with
>> existing clones: you won't be able to push and pull.
>>
> FYI. I've usually found that hg help has the most up to date info. With  
> 3.4.2 I notice that startrev is not doc'd for an hg source.
>
>     $ hg help conv|grep startrev
>          convert.svn.startrev
>          convert.p4.startrev

Nice catch.  I just put in a patch for 3.5.

Not sure why, but the checker for undocumented config options seems to  
mark most (but not all, like 'convert.git.findcopiesharder') of the  
documented options as undocumented.  It looks like 'svn.debugsvnlog' is  
the only other one that is actually undocumented.



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