Mercurial command to combine hg pull; hg up

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Petrus Theron picture Petrus Theron · Mar 6, 2013 · Viewed 8.2k times · Source

How can I combine the Mercurial commands hg pull and hg update into one?

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djc picture djc · Mar 6, 2013

Obviously, hg pull -u is the answer here.

However, there's a caveat that deserves mentioning: hg pull -u is not exactly equivalent to hg pull && hg update. This is briefly mentioned in the documentation, but it can be surprising if you first run into it; if there's nothing to pull (e.g. no new changesets came in), then hg pull -u doesn't update. This can be slightly confusing if you weren't on a head before issuing the command.

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