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Update the hg-prompt documentation.
author Steve Losh <steve@stevelosh.com>
date Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:17:48 -0500
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  <h1 id="quick-start">Quick Start</h1>
<p>This guide will get you up and running so you can put some useful information into your shell prompt.</p>
<p>If you haven't already <a href="/installation">installed</a> it, do that now.</p>
<h2 id="a-simple-but-useful-prompt">A Simple (But Useful) Prompt</h2>
<p>Edit your <code>~/.bashrc</code> file to include something like this:</p>
<div class="codehilite"><pre><span class="n">hg_ps1</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="p">{</span>
    <span class="n">hg</span> <span class="n">prompt</span> <span class="s">&quot;{ on {branch}}{ at {bookmark}}{status}&quot;</span> <span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="sr">/dev/</span><span class="n">null</span>
<span class="p">}</span>

<span class="n">export</span> <span class="n">PS1</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;\u at \h in \w$(hg_ps1)\n$ &#39;</span>
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<p><code>source ~/.bashrc</code> after to test it out.  Make sure you're in a Mercurial repository or you won't see anything.  This little prompt will give you something like this:</p>
<div class="codehilite"><pre><span class="n">steve</span> <span class="n">at</span> <span class="n">myhost</span> <span class="n">in</span> <span class="o">~</span><span class="sr">/src/</span><span class="n">hg</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">prompt</span> <span class="n">on</span> <span class="n">default</span> <span class="n">at</span> <span class="n">feature</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">bookmark</span><span class="p">?</span>
<span class="nv">$</span>
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<h2 id="an-advanced-prompt">An Advanced Prompt</h2>
<p>How about something a little more interesting?</p>
<div class="codehilite"><pre><span class="n">hg_ps1</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="p">{</span>
    <span class="n">hg</span> <span class="n">prompt</span> <span class="s">&quot;{[+{incoming|count}]--&gt;}{root|basename}{/{branch}}{--&gt;[+{outgoing|count}]}{ at {bookmark}}{status}&quot;</span> <span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="sr">/dev/</span><span class="n">null</span>
<span class="p">}</span>

<span class="n">export</span> <span class="n">PS1</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;$(hg_ps1)\n\u at \h in \w\n$ &#39;</span>
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<p>And the result (this example assumes one incoming changeset and two outgoing):</p>
<div class="codehilite"><pre><span class="p">[</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">--&gt;</span><span class="n">hg</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">prompt</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">default</span><span class="o">--&gt;</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="n">at</span> <span class="n">feature</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">bookmark</span>
<span class="n">steve</span> <span class="n">at</span> <span class="n">myhost</span> <span class="n">in</span> <span class="o">~</span><span class="sr">/src/</span><span class="n">hg</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">prompt</span>
<span class="nv">$</span>
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<h2 id="learn-more">Learn More</h2>
<p>From here you can take a look at the <a href="/documentation">full documentation</a> to see all the interesting things <code>hg-prompt</code> can do.</p>

    
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