mercurial-port(1)

📦 version 0.10.2, in debian bookworm

✨ mercurial-port ✨

okay bestie, welcome to mercurial-port(1) from the User Commands section 💖 this is the little tool that takes a version of your package you already released and yeets it into the porting branch it belongs in. no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

mercurial-port — take an already-released version of a package source and incorporate it into a specific porting branch 🦋

like, the version's already out there living its life, and this command is the matchmaker that moves it into the right branch. it's giving glow-up for your repo.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

mercurial-port [option] branch

one optional flag situation, one branch name. that's the whole vibe. periodt.

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So here's the tea, bestie: mercurial-port switches over to the branch you named and merges it with the default branch. 🫶

And the iconic part? If that branch doesn't exist yet, it just creates it for you. no drama, no manual setup, it just happens. main character energy fr fr. ✨

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

  • --version, -V — spits out the version and dips. that's it, that's the whole job 💅
  • --verbose, -v — turns the volume up on how much it tells you. you can stack it several times if you want maximum yapping 📢 (yes, several. it stacks.)
  • --package-version version, -p version — merges version into the branch instead of grabbing the most recent version out of debian/changelog. pick your fighter, choose your version 💖

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

mercurial-port -p 3.2-1 lenny
what this does: merges version 3.2-1 of the package sitting in your current directory into the branch lenny. slay. 👑

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Jens Peter Secher <jpsecher@gmail.com>

(the genius behind all of this, we stan 🫶)

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

the whole friend group, basically 💜 go read them too, iykyk.

and that's a wrap, bestie!! this lil page is mercurial-port version 0.10.1 on Debian, dated December 2009 — yeah she's vintage but she still eats 💖🌸✨ mwah, go port something 🎀

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