HG(LOCATE)

🌸 HG(LOCATE) 🌸

okay bestie, gather round, we're doing a hg locate deep dive 💖 it's the Mercurial manual page, it's deprecated (rip), and we're gonna read it together like it's a group chat.

✨ NAME ✨

hg locate — locate files matching specific patterns (DEPRECATED) 💀

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

hg locate [OPTION]... [PATTERN]...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So basically, this prints out the files under Mercurial control in your working directory whose names match whatever patterns you handed it. matching era ✨

By default, it searches all directories in the working directory. If you want it to only search the current directory and its subdirectories, pass "--include ." — yes, literally that. it's giving "stay in your lane" 💅

If you give it no patterns to match, it just prints the names of all the files under Mercurial control in the working directory. all of them. the whole roster 👑

Now, if you're planning to feed this output into the "xargs" command, use the -0 option on both this command and "xargs". why? because otherwise "xargs" will treat a single filename that contains whitespace as multiple filenames 😭 and that's a mess nobody asked for. the -0 on both sides keeps things clean.

Also, real talk: check out hg help files for a more versatile command — this one's the deprecated cousin, iykyk.

It returns 0 if a match is found, and 1 otherwise. simple as that. periodt.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -r, --rev <REV> — search the repository as it is in REV 🔍
• -0, --print0 — end filenames with NUL, for use with xargs
• -f, --fullpath — print complete paths from the filesystem root 🌈
• -I, --include <PATTERN[+]> — include names matching the given patterns
• -X, --exclude <PATTERN[+]> — exclude names matching the given patterns

[+] marked option can be specified multiple times — so if you've got a lot of patterns, go off, stack 'em 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this was the HG(LOCATE) manual — HG(LOCATE), one and only, no cap. mwah 💋