Functions implementation status FUNCTION NAME STATUS BACKEND PROPERTIES * revision-granularity OK - update-on-retrieve-tag OK STATE-QUERYING FUNCTIONS * registered (file) OK * state (file) OK - dir-status-files (dir files update-function) OK - dir-extra-headers (dir) OK - dir-printer (fileinfo) OK - status-fileinfo-extra (file) OK * working-revision (file) OK * checkout-model (files) OK - mode-line-string (file) OK STATE-CHANGING FUNCTIONS * create-repo (backend) OK * register (files &optional comment) OK - responsible-p (file) OK - receive-file (file rev) NO no specific actions - unregister (file) OK * checkin (files comment &optional rev) OK * find-revision (file rev buffer) OK * checkout (file &optional rev) OK * revert (file &optional contents-done) OK - merge-file (file rev1 rev2) NO not needed - merge-branch () OK - merge-news (file) NO not needed - pull (prompt) OK - steal-lock (file &optional revision) NO not needed - modify-change-comment (files rev comment) NO hg can modify only last comment - mark-resolved (files) OK - find-admin-dir (file) NO is this .hg dir? HISTORY FUNCTIONS * print-log (files buffer &optional shortlog start-revision limit) OK * log-outgoing (backend remote-location) OK * log-incoming (backend remote-location) OK - log-search (buffer pattern) OK - log-view-mode () OK - show-log-entry (revision) OK - comment-history (file) NO - update-changelog (files) NO * diff (files &optional rev1 rev2 buffer async) OK - revision-completion-table (files) OK branches and tags instead of revisions - annotate-command (file buf &optional rev) OK - annotate-time () OK - annotate-current-time () NO - annotate-extract-revision-at-line () OK - region-history (FILE BUFFER LFROM LTO) OK experimental option "line-range" added in mercurial 4.4 - region-history-mode () NO - mergebase (rev1 &optional rev2) TODO TAG SYSTEM - create-tag (dir name branchp) OK - retrieve-tag (dir name update) OK MISCELLANEOUS - make-version-backups-p (file) NO - root (file) OK - ignore (file &optional directory) OK find-ignore-file - ignore-completion-table OK find-ignore-file - previous-revision (file rev) OK - next-revision (file rev) OK - log-edit-mode () OK - check-headers () NO - delete-file (file) OK - rename-file (old new) OK - find-file-hook () OK - extra-menu () OK shelve, addremove - extra-dir-menu () OK extra-status-menu same as extra-menu - conflicted-files (dir) OK with no respect to DIR - repository-url (file-or-dir) OK VC backend to work with hg repositories through hg command server. https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/CommandServer The main advantage compared to vc-hg is speed. Because communicating with hg over pipe is much faster than starting hg for each command. Also there are some other improvements and differences: - graph log is used for branch or root log - Conflict status for a file Files with unresolved merge conflicts have appropriate status in `vc-dir'. Also you can use `vc-find-conflicted-file' to find next file with unresolved merge conflict. Files with resolved merge conflicts have extra file info in `vc-dir'. - hg summary as `vc-dir' extra headers hg summary command gives useful information about commit, update and phase states. - Current branch is displayed on mode line. It's not customizable yet. - Amend and close branch commits While editing commit message you can toggle --amend and --close-branch flags. - Merge branch vc-hgcmd will ask for branch name to merge. - Default pull arguments You can customize default hg pull command arguments. By default it's --update. You can change it for particular pull by invoking `vc-pull' with prefix argument. - Branches and tags as revision completion table Instead of list of all revisions of file vc-hgcmd provides list of named branches and tags. It's very useful on `vc-retrieve-tag'. You can specify -C to run hg update with -C flag and discard all uncommitted changes. - Filenames in vc-annotate buffer is omitted They are mostly useless in annotate buffer. To find out right filename to annotate vc-hgcmd uses `status --rev -C file'. - `previous-revision' and `next-revision' respect files Keys `p' and `n' in annotation buffer works correctly. - Create tag vc-hgcmd creates tag on `vc-create-tag' If `vc-create-tag' is invoked with prefix argument then named branch will be created. - Predefined commit message While committing merge changes commit message will be set to 'merged ' if different branch was merged or to 'merged '. Additionally predefined commit message passed to custom function `vc-hgcmd-log-edit-message-function' so one can change it. For example, to include current task in commit message: (defun my/hg-commit-message (original-message) (if org-clock-current-task (concat org-clock-current-task " " original-message) original-message)) (custom-set-variables '(vc-hgcmd-log-edit-message-function 'my/hg-commit-message)) - Interactive command `vc-hgcmd-runcommand' that allow to run custom hg commands - It is possible to answer to hg questions, e.g. pick action during merge - Option to display shelves in `vc-dir' - View changes made by revision; diff to parents Additional bindings in `log-view-mode': - `c c' view change made by revision at point (-c option to hg diff command) - `c 1' view diff between revision at point and its first parent - `c 2' view diff between revision at point and its second parent `C c', `C 1' and `C 2' shows corresponding diffs for whole changeset. - View log for revset Command `vc-hgcmd-print-log-revset' allows to print log for revset, e.g. "branch(branch1) or branch(branch2)"