One way would be hg rollback (deprecated as of Hg2.7, August 2013) Please use hg commit –amend instead of rollback to correct mistakes in the last commit. Roll back the last transaction in a repository. When committing or merging, Mercurial adds the changeset entry last. Mercurial keeps a transaction log of the name of each … Read more
Both existing answers suggest storing your username and password unencrypted in plain-text, which is a bit of a no-no. You should use the Keyring extension instead, as it has been specifically designed for securely saving authentication passwords. It already comes bundled with TortoiseHg, so all you have to do is activate it by writing the … Read more
Pushing to a network share is possible, but not recommended by the Mercurial team. See the “shared disk” part in Publishing Repositories in the Mercurial wiki: generally restricted to intranets, not generally recommended due to general issues with network filesystem reliability At my workplace, we are keeping our HG repositories on a network share (on … Read more
Update: Mercurial has added –amend which should be the preferred option now. You can rollback the last commit (but only the last one) with hg rollback and then reapply it. Important: this permanently removes the latest commit (or pull). So if you’ve done a hg update that commit is no longer in your working directory … Read more
You could probably try this stuff out and learn it more quickly than writing up your question took, but I’ll bite. Can any or all of these steps be executed with TortoiseHG, as of version 0.9.2? If yes, how? TortiseHG doesn’t yet put GUI wrappers around sub-repo creation, but TortiseHG has always done a great … Read more
I always use a combination of .hgignore and BeforeBuild (in the .csproj file) for things like this. In one of my pet projects, I have the following setup: App.config contains my real hardcoded user id and password for testing. App.config.example is identical, but with fake data like “dummy_user” and “dummy_pw”. App.config is not part of … Read more