Mercurial | Qt Creator Manual
Description: Additional Mercurial functions.

- Qt Creator Manual
- Mercurial
- Qt Creator Manual 13.0.1

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# Mercurial

Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool.

In addition to the standard version control system functions described in Use common VCS Functions, you can select the following functions in the Tools > Mercurial submenu:

Menu Item | Description
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Import | Apply changes from a patch file.
Incoming | Monitor the status of a remote repository by listing the changes that will be pulled.
Outgoing | Monitor the status of a remote repository by listing the changes that will be pushed.
Pull | Pull changes from the remote repository.
Push | Push changes to the remote repository.

## Mercurial Preferences

To set preferences for Mercurial, select Preferences > Version Control > Mercurial:

- Command specifies the path to the command-line client executable.
- Default username and Default email specify the username and email address to use by default when committing changes.
- Log count sets the maximum number of lines the log can have.
- Timeout sets a timeout for version control operations.

See also Set up version control systems, Use common VCS functions, and Version Control Systems.

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