---
name: "thg"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "tortoisehg"
version: "6.9-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/thg"
---

# thg(1)

TortoiseHg's GUI tools for Mercurial SCM (Hg)

## NAME

thg - TortoiseHg's GUI tools for Mercurial SCM (Hg)

## SYNOPSIS

**thg** \[*global options*\] *command* \[*command options*\]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **thg**command.

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

**thg** is a program that invokes TortoiseHg's GUI tools for Mercurial SCM (i.e. [**hg**(1)](/hg/1.md))

## OPTIONS

The program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (\`-'). A summary of options is included below.

### Global Options

- **-R**, **--repository**

  Set the repository root directory or symbolic path name.

- **-v**, **--verbose**

  Enable additional output.

- **-q**, **--quiet**

  Suppress output.

- **-h**, **--help**

  Display help and exit.

- **--debugger**

  Start debugger.

- **--profile**

  Print command execution profile.

- **--nofork**

  Do not fork GUI process.

- **--fork**

  Always fork GUI process.

- **--listfile**

  Read file list from file.

- **--listfileutf8**

  Read file list from file encoding utf-8.

### Commands

Here is a bref list of the supported commands. More detailed documentation on a specific command can be obtained by running: **thg help** *command*

**about**

About dialog.

**add**

Add files.

**annotate**, **blame**

Annotate dialog.

**archive**

Archive dialog.

**backout**

Backout tool.

**bisect**

Bisect dialog.

**clone**

Clone tool.

**commit**, **ci**

Commit tool.

**drag\_copy**

Copy the selected files to the desired directory.

**drag\_move**

Move the selected files to the desired directory.

**email**

Send changesets by email.

**forget**

Forget selected files.

**grep**, **search**

Grep/search dialog.

**guess**

Guess previous renames or copies.

**help**

Show help for a command, extension, or list of commands.

**hgignore**, **ignore**, **filter**

Ignore filter editor.

**import**

Import an ordered set of patches.

**init**

Init dialog.

**log**, **history**, **explorer**, **workbench**

Workbench application.

**manifest**

Display the current or given revision of the project manifest.

**merge**

Merge wizard.

**mq**

Mercurial Queue tool.

**purge**

Purge unknown and/or ignore files from repository.

**qqueue**

Manage multiple MQ patch queues.

**qreorder**

Reorder unapplied MQ patches.

**rebase**

Rebase dialog.

**rejects**

Manually resolve rejected patch chunks.

**remove**, **rm**

Remove selected files.

**rename**, **mv**, **copy**

Rename dialog.

**repoconfig**

Repository configuration editor.

**resolve**

Resolve dialog.

**revert**

Revert selected files.

**serve**

Start stand-alone webserver.

**shelve**, **unshelve**

Move changes between working directory and patches.

**status**

Browse working copy status.

**strip**

Strip dialog.

**sync**, **synchronize**

Synchronize with other repositories.

**tag**

Tag tool.

**test**

Test arbitrary widgets.

**update**, **checkout**, **co**

Update/checkout tool.

**userconfig**

User configuration editor.

**vdiff**

Launch configured visual diff tool.

**version**

Output version and copyright information.

## BUGS

The upstreams BTS can be found at **https://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg/issues**.

## SEE ALSO

[**hg**(1)](/hg/1.md)

## AUTHOR

**Ludovico Cavedon** \<cavedon@debian.org\>

Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2009-2011 Ludovico Cavedon \<cavedon@debian.org\>\>\

This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.