HG(COPY)

💖 HG(COPY) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the hg copy manual page — the one and only, straight from the HG(COPY) pages, no gatekeeping here 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

hg copy — mark files as copied for the next commit 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

hg copy [OPTION]... (SOURCE... DEST | --forget DEST...)

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So basically: this marks dest as having copies of source files. Simple as that 💅

If dest is a directory, the copies get dropped into that directory. If dest is a file, then source has to be a single file — no bundling, one source only, that's the vibe check and it's non-negotiable.

By default this command literally copies the contents of files exactly as they exist in the working directory. Like, actual copying, for real for real. But if you run it with -A/--after, the operation just gets recorded — no copying is performed. Zero file movement, just the receipt 🧾

Wanna undo marking a destination file as copied? That's what --forget is for. With that option, all the given (positional) arguments get unmarked as copies. The destination file(s) will be left in place (still tracked), so nothing disappears on you 🙈 Also note: hg copy --forget behaves the same way as hg rename --forget. Same energy, different command name.

This command takes effect with the next commit by default. So don't panic if nothing looks different yet — it's all queued up, main character energy, waiting for its moment ⭐

Returns 0 on success, 1 if errors are encountered. That's it. That's the whole mood.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --forget — unmark a destination file as copied, bestie. Undoing, but make it official.
• -A, --after — record a copy that has already occurred. You did the thing, now you're just logging it 📝
• --at-rev <REV> — (un)mark copies in the given revision. EXPERIMENTAL, so treat it like a limited-edition drop 👀
• -f, --force — forcibly copy over an existing managed file. She's pushy but she gets results 🔥
• -I, --include <PATTERN[+]> — include names matching the given patterns ✨
• -X, --exclude <PATTERN[+]> — exclude names matching the given patterns 🚫
• -n, --dry-run — do not perform actions, just print output. All vibes, no consequences, the dream 🌈

[+] marked option can be specified multiple times — stack 'em, bestie, go off 💜

🎀 ALIASES 🎀

• cp

ok so that's the whole page, no crumbs left behind 🍓 this was the HG(COPY) manual — and yep, that's the same HG(COPY) name sitting at the bottom of the original too, so consider this your little sign-off, mwah 💖✨