HG(STATUS) HG(STATUS)

hg status - show changed files in the working directory

hg status [OPTION]... [FILE]...

Show status of files in the repository. If names are given, only files that match are shown. Files that are clean or ignored or the source of a copy/move operation, are not listed unless -c/--clean, -i/--ignored, -C/--copies or -A/--all are given. Unless options described with "show only ..." are given, the options -mardu are used.

Option -q/--quiet hides untracked (unknown and ignored) files unless explicitly requested with -u/--unknown or -i/--ignored.

hg status may appear to disagree with diff if permissions have changed or a merge has occurred. The standard diff format does not report permission changes and diff only reports changes relative to one merge parent.

If one revision is given, it is used as the base revision. If two revisions are given, the differences between them are shown. The --change option can also be used as a shortcut to list the changed files of a revision from its first parent.

The codes used to show the status of files are:

M = modified
A = added
R = removed
C = clean
! = missing (deleted by non-hg command, but still tracked)
? = not tracked
I = ignored
  = origin of the previous file (with --copies)

The -t/--terse option abbreviates the output by showing only the directory name if all the files in it share the same status. The option takes an argument indicating the statuses to abbreviate: 'm' for 'modified', 'a' for 'added', 'r' for 'removed', 'd' for 'deleted', 'u' for 'unknown', 'i' for 'ignored' and 'c' for clean.

It abbreviates only those statuses which are passed. Note that clean and ignored files are not displayed with '--terse ic' unless the -c/--clean and -i/--ignored options are also used.

The -v/--verbose option shows information when the repository is in an unfinished merge, shelve, rebase state etc. You can have this behavior turned on by default by enabling the commands.status.verbose option.

You can skip displaying some of these states by setting commands.status.skipstates to one or more of: 'bisect', 'graft', 'histedit', 'merge', 'rebase', or 'unshelve'.

Template:

The following keywords are supported in addition to the common template keywords and functions. See also hg help templates.

String. Repository-absolute path of the file.
String. Repository-absolute path of the file originated from. Available if --copies is specified.
String. Character denoting file's status.

Examples:

  • show changes in the working directory relative to a changeset: 
    hg status --rev 9353
  • show changes in the working directory relative to the current directory (see hg help patterns for more information): 
    hg status re:
  • show all changes including copies in an existing changeset: 
    hg status --copies --change 9353
  • get a NUL separated list of added files, suitable for xargs: 
    hg status -an0
  • show more information about the repository status, abbreviating added, removed, modified, deleted, and untracked paths: 
    hg status -v -t mardu

    Returns 0 on success.

show status of all files
show only modified files
show only added files
show only removed files
show only missing files
show only files without changes
show only unknown (not tracked) files
show only ignored files
hide status prefix
show the terse output (EXPERIMENTAL) (default: nothing)
show source of copied files (DEFAULT: ui.statuscopies)
-0, --print0
end filenames with NUL, for use with xargs
show difference from revision
list the changed files of a revision
include names matching the given patterns
exclude names matching the given patterns
recurse into subrepositories
display with template

[+] marked option can be specified multiple times

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