hg-bookmarks(1)

Usage

hg bookmarks [OPTIONS]... [NAME]...

Overview

Bookmarks are labels on changesets to help track lines of development. Bookmarks are unversioned and can be moved, renamed and deleted. Deleting or moving a bookmark has no effect on the associated changesets.

Creating or updating to a bookmark causes it to be marked as 'active'. The active bookmark is indicated with a '*'. When a commit is made, the active bookmark will advance to the new commit. A plain hg update will also advance an active bookmark, if possible. Updating away from a bookmark will cause it to be deactivated.

Bookmarks can be pushed and pulled between repositories (see hg help push and hg help pull). If a shared bookmark has diverged, a new 'divergent bookmark' of the form 'name@path' will be created. Using hg merge will resolve the divergence.

Specifying bookmark as '.' to -m/-d/-l options is equivalent to specifying the active bookmark's name.

A bookmark named '@' has the special property that hg clone will check it out by default if it exists.

Template:

The following keywords are supported in addition to the common template keywords and functions such as {bookmark}. See also hg help templates.

active

Boolean. True if the bookmark is active.

Examples:

•: create an active bookmark for a new line of development:

hg book new-feature

•: create an inactive bookmark as a place marker:

hg book -i reviewed

•: create an inactive bookmark on another changeset:

hg book -r .^ tested

•: rename bookmark turkey to dinner:

hg book -m turkey dinner

•: move the '@' bookmark from another branch:

hg book -f @

•: print only the active bookmark name:

hg book -ql .

Options

-f, --force: force

-r,--rev <REV>: revision for bookmark action

-d, --delete: delete a given bookmark

-m,--rename <OLD>: rename a given bookmark

-i, --inactive: mark a bookmark inactive

-l, --list: list existing bookmarks

-T,--template <TEMPLATE>: display with template

Aliases

bookmark