5.13. Archiving

You can choose from quite a lot of formats to make an archive of a repository. There are the usual compressed formats. But it’s also possible to make a plain folder of files in another place than the Working Directory (it’s like a clone, but without the .hg folder). Can be useful for doing builds for example (think ‘svn export’). One can make an archive with only the files of the selected rev. Some people seem to use this to send changes to external people that do not have access to the repository.

From the changelog context menu in the Workbench select Archive... for the choosen changeset, or, within the folder, type thg archive.

Repository Archive Dialog

Revision

To select the revision you wish to archive or export.

Only files modified/created in this revision

To limit the number of files in the archive.

Destination path

The filename or directory where the archive will be created. It is filled with the name of the current repository, suffixed with the revision number of the selected revision, and has the appropriate extension of the selected archive type.

Archive types

Here you can choose the type of archive to create, ranging from a plain folder with files to a variety of standard archive type.

Hg command

This field displays the command that will be executed by the dialog.

Always show output

To have an logging output pane with the results of the command while it runs.

Archiving a repository means create an archive file or subdirectory with the contents of the selected revision.

5.13.1. From command line

The archive tool can be started from command line

thg archive

The syntax is

thg archive -r [REV] -t [TYPE] [DEST]

where [REV] is the revision to archive, [TYPE] is the type of archive to create, and [DEST] is the name of the file or filder to create.

See hg.1.html#archive for details, or type hg help archive at the command line or in the Output Log of the Workbench.