Is there a way to mark a file; not a commit or should I say, not the whole commit; but only some file within some commit in Mercurial?
Apart from the method of just writing the name of the file in the commit message, of course.
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Is there a way to mark a file; not a commit or should I say, not the whole commit; but only some file within some commit in Mercurial?
Apart from the method of just writing the name of the file in the commit message, of course.
Right, let’s make an attempt at an answer, based on the info provided.
Mercurial is not a file-based VCS, it’s change-based VCS. In other words it doesn’t know that you changed fileA or fileB, all it know is that you made a changeset X. So there is, unfortunately, no way to “mark” a particular file.
As an alternative solution I’d suggest creating a “tag” (see here) on currently commited/pushed changeset when you send out a file, maybe formatting tagname to identify the file you have sent out.