Posh-Hg-Async

A fork of Posh-Hg with improved performance, particularly for large repositories. Fetches hg status in the background allowing the user to continue entering commands instead of locking up the whole terminal with every new line.

Original Posh-Hg:

Posh-Hg-Async:

Posh-Hg Features

Prompt

Provides a prompt for Mercurial repositories that shows the current branch and repo state (file additions, modifications, deletions).

Tab Completion

Provides tab completion for common commands. E.g. hg up<tab> --> hg update

Usage

See profile.example.ps1 as to how you can integrate the tab completion and/or hg prompt into your own profile. Prompt formatting, among other things, can be customized using the $PoshHgSettings variable.

Installing

0. Verify you have PowerShell 2.0 or better with $PSVersionTable.PSVersion
1. Verify execution of scripts is allowed with Get-ExecutionPolicy (should be RemoteSigned or Unrestricted). If scripts are not enabled, run PowerShell as Administrator and call Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Confirm.
2. Verify that hg can be run from PowerShell. If the command is not found, you will need to add a hg alias or add %ProgramFiles%\TortoiseHg to your PATH environment variable.
3. Clone the posh-hg repository to your local machine.
4. From the posh-hg repository directory, run .\install.ps1.
5. Enjoy!

The Prompt

PowerShell generates its prompt by executing a prompt function, if one exists. posh-hg defines such a function in profile.example.ps1 that outputs the current working directory followed by an abbreviated hg status:

C:\Users\JSkinner [default]>

By default, the status summary has the following format:

[{HEAD-name} +A ~B -C ?D !E ^F <G:H>]

• {HEAD-name} is the current branch, or the SHA of a detached HEAD
• Cyan means the branch matches its remote
• Red means the branch is behind its remote
• ABCDEFGH represent the working directory
• + = Added files
• ~ = Modified files
• - = Removed files
• ? = Untracked files
• ! = Missing files
• ^ = Renamed files
• <G:H> = Current revision information matching the output of hg log -r . --template '{rev}:{node|short}'

Additionally, Posh-Hg can show any tags and bookmarks in the prompt as well as MQ patches if the MQ extension is enabled (disabled by default)

Based on work by:

• Jeremy Skinner, http://www.jeremyskinner.co.uk/
• Keith Dahlby, http://solutionizing.net/
• Mark Embling, http://www.markembling.info/