In mercurial how do I bundle my latest commits and mark them as already bundled

Question

From a Mercurial repository I want to regularly create a bundle with all my latest commits (in order to email them).

Starting with a clean directory I envision a process like this:

1. create a clean repository
   work on my directory
   commit
   work more in directory
   commit
   ...

2. send a bundle with the commits.

3. work on my directory
   commit
   work more in directory
   commit
   ...

4. send a bundle with the all commits after the last sent bundle.

5. go back to 2.

How can I do this? The problem is step 4. Is there a way to mark all bundled commits (in order to not bundle them again)?

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Note: Together all the bundles I sent per email should make up the complete directory in its current state.

Answer 1

There is no built-in mechanism for this in Mercurial. What you want to do is to specify the correct base changeset when you generate a new bundle. That is, in Step 4, you want to run

$ hg bundle --base head-used-in-step-2 changes-after-2.hg

You can do the bookkeeping in different ways: teach your parrot to remember the last bundled commit, write it on a post-it note, write the commit into an untracked file in the repository, or track it using a local tag.

Using a local tag is probably the best way. After you create a new bundle you move the tag to the working copy parent revsion:

$ hg bundle --base last-bundle
$ hg tag --local -f last-bundle

You need -f since you will be moving the tag. You wont have the last-bundle tag the first time you bundle, so just use hg bundle --all the first time.