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Being very familiar with the subversion workflow and that fact that 99.9% of the time my computer is connected to the internet, I don't like doing 'hg ci' and 'hg push' separately.

I remember bzr had a 'checkout' command that would bind subsequent 'commit' commands to automatically commit directly to the server ('push').

Does mercurial have something similar to this?

PS: Writing a shell script or alias that runs 'hg ci $* && hg push' would be the last thing I'd do.

Sridhar Ratnakumar
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You could add a hook to run push after a successful commit.

EDIT: I just tried it out and it seems to work fine. I added the following to the .hg/hgrc file of the repository I wanted to activate automatic pushing for:

[hooks]
commit.autopush = hg push

EDIT 2: Also, you don't have to worry about something like this:

  • You're in a repository that you don't want to automatically push.
  • You use hg -R ~/another-repo-that-autopushes commit to commit in a different repo that does automatically push.
  • Will the hg push hook end up pushing the changes in the current directory instead of the one you're committing in?

No, it won't. According to the page I linked:

An executable hook is always run with its current directory set to a repository's root directory.

It's an edge case, but Mercurial handles it correctly.

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    The problem with this hook is that mq commands that create temporary commits (qnew, qpush, etc.) will trigger a push. Using the post-commit hook might be a better idea. – hwiechers Dec 26 '11 at 22:38
  • @hwiechers: can you give an example of how to write a post-commit hook? – max Jan 30 '12 at 17:16
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    @max: Instead of using `commit.autopush = hg push` do `post-commit.autopush = hg push`. The post-commit hook runs after the commit command successfully completes. The commit hook runs whenever a changeset is created in the local repository. See http://linux.die.net/man/5/hgrc for details. – hwiechers Jan 30 '12 at 20:22