R – TortoiseHg Copy Similarity feature

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When committing changes to Mercurial, it can auto-detect move/copy/renames by using the command

hg addremove -similarity 100

The number after similarity indicates how similar two files need to be from 0-100% for mercurial to decide its a move, copy or rename instead of just a new file.

This is a great feature. Can TortoiseHg do this?

Best Answer

Yes it can. If you take a look at the TortoiseHg manual you'll find section 4.12 entitled "Rename Guessing". To quote:

Select one or more Unrevisioned Files
Slide the similarity bar (Minimum Similarity Percentage) to the percentage match you want
Press either Find Renames or Find Copies
Select candidate matches and accept good matches
Repeat until all unversioned files are matched

The nice thing is step 5: you can actually toggle the similarity as you go, and Tortoise changes what files are considered renames on the fly. You can get most of what you want by sliding the bar carefully to the right percentage and re-checking.

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Store password in TortoiseHg

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 following in your mercurial.ini file:

[extensions]
mercurial_keyring=

You will also have to associate your username with the push url by editing your repository-specific .hg\hgrc file like in the example below:

[paths]
default = https://<your_username>@bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg

For more details on associating your username with the url, see the Repository Configuration (SMTP) section of the Keyring extension page.

How to branch with TortoiseHG

As shown in the docs, all you should need to do is just click on the branch: default button near the top of the commit dialog, and change to a new branch name.

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