Mercurial FAQ

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Is there any way to edit commiter's name in mercurial repo? I'm not concerned with a commit message but only with a commiter's name.
What will happen if two users try to clone the same repo to the same directory at the same time or if they try to pull/update the same repo at the same time?
Currently I am using Mercurial 0.9.5, is any way to limit the size of file that users can push/check-in into repository? I can't find any proper commands with .hgrc file so far.
Is it possible to create a repository using Mercurial's API? I'm writing some Python scripts to automate various things (create repo, configure WSGI etc) and this would make my life much easier.
Does mercurial support source uninstallation via make uninstall or some other means? Assuming I install from source, and then need to upgrade, what's the procedure to clear out the old installation?
We'd like to gather the info in our repositories. Is there a command to get the list of files that have been committed in a repo, including those that have been removed/renamed in the later changesets?
It appears that any change I make in my local repository will create a new head in the remote repository if anyone has made any changes to the remote repository. Is this expected behaviour? Is there a way to prevent all these merges?
I see that if I'm working in branch 'default' and then I hg branch my_branch (work...) hg commit mercurial only shows me 'my_branch' last commit as a head. Should not 'default' last commit be also considered a head? After all, if I'm starting a new branch, I probably do want a separate line of development.
Are there any plans to port Mercurial to Python3?
How to make hg work with symbolic links as with common files ?

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