Check in single file with Mercurial?

Question

Let's say you do hg status and you have three files modified. I know how to check in all three files (hg commit). But how can you check in (and then hg push) just one of the modified files?

Solution 1

Please check the output of hg help commit which reveals that you can do

hg commit foo.c

if you just want to commit a single file. This is just like Subversion and many other systems — no hocus-pocus :-)

Solution 2

Just do:

hg ci -I path/to/file -m "commited only one file"

That commits only one file, and you can push it, and none of the uncommitted changes will be affected.

Solution 3

On the off chance you're running on Windows, TortoiseHG (a graphical Mercurial interface) lets you select which files to commit every time.