WebStorm 2021.1 Help

Mercurial

Use this page to specify the version control settings to be applied to the directories of your project that are under Mercurial version control.

ItemDescription
Path to hg executable

Specify the location of the Mercurial executable file. Enter the path manually, or click the Browse button the Browse button and select the path in the dialog that opens.

If you followed the standard installation procedure, the default location is /opt/local/bin or /usr/local/bin for Linux and macOS and /Program Files/TortoiseHG for Windows.

It is recommended that you add the path to the Mercurial executable file to the PATH variable. In this case, you can specify only the executable name, the full path to the executable location is not required.

TestClick this button to verify the path to the Mercurial executable.
Execute branch operations on all roots

This option only becomes available if you have a multirooted project, that is there are several Mercurial repositories within a single project.

Select this option if you want branch operations (such as checkout, merge, and so on.) to be applied synchronously to all repositories within your project.

Check for incoming and outgoing changesetsSelect this option if you want WebStorm to detect incoming and outgoing changes in the background mode. WebStorm will automatically request the server for incoming and outgoing changesets every 5 minutes.
Ignore whitespace differences in annotationsSelect this option if you want white spaces to be ignored when annotating, and, thus, get more meaningful annotations and cast out senseless ones.
Last modified: 08 March 2021