hg bookmarks

create a new bookmark or list existing bookmarks

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 .