Mercurial has the ability to add new features through the use of extensions. Extensions may add new commands, add options to existing commands, change the default behavior of commands, or implement hooks.
To enable the "foo" extension, either shipped with Mercurial or in the Python search path, create an entry for it in your configuration file, like this:
[extensions] foo =
You may also specify the full path to an extension:
[extensions] myfeature = ~/.hgext/myfeature.py
See hg help config for more information on configuration files.
Extensions are not loaded by default for a variety of reasons: they can increase startup overhead; they may be meant for advanced usage only; they may provide potentially dangerous abilities (such as letting you destroy or modify history); they might not be ready for prime time; or they may alter some usual behaviors of stock Mercurial. It is thus up to the user to activate extensions as needed.
To explicitly disable an extension enabled in a configuration file of broader scope, prepend its path with !:
[extensions] # disabling extension bar residing in /path/to/extension/bar.py bar = !/path/to/extension/bar.py # ditto, but no path was supplied for extension baz baz = !
disabled extensions:
acl: hooks for controlling repository access blackbox: log repository events to a blackbox for debugging bugzilla: hooks for integrating with the Bugzilla bug tracker censor: erase file content at a given revision churn: command to display statistics about repository history clonebundles: advertise pre-generated bundles to seed clones closehead: close arbitrary heads without checking them out first convert: import revisions from foreign VCS repositories into Mercurial eol: automatically manage newlines in repository files extdiff: command to allow external programs to compare revisions factotum: http authentication with factotum fastexport: export repositories as git fast-import stream githelp: try mapping git commands to Mercurial commands gpg: commands to sign and verify changesets hgk: browse the repository in a graphical way highlight: syntax highlighting for hgweb (requires Pygments) histedit: interactive history editing keyword: expand keywords in tracked files largefiles: track large binary files mq: manage a stack of patches notify: hooks for sending email push notifications patchbomb: command to send changesets as (a series of) patch emails rebase: command to move sets of revisions to a different ancestor relink: recreates hardlinks between repository clones schemes: extend schemes with shortcuts to repository swarms share: share a common history between several working directories transplant: command to transplant changesets from another branch win32mbcs: allow the use of MBCS paths with problematic encodings zeroconf: discover and advertise repositories on the local network