Push secret changesets

Question

That may look paradoxical, I know that secret changesets are meant to be private, but what if I want to backup those secret changesets?

I work with some branches in para

Answer 1

No need to mark anything secret. If you only want to push one branch, use:

hg push -r REV

This will push REV and its ancestors only.

Secret is good for Mercurial patch queue revisions, since they can't be pushed anyway and it prevents a local clone from copying them.

Draft is good for tracking unpushed changes. If you still want to back them up, pushing them will flip them to Public, but you can reset them back to draft (as compared to another repository) with:

hg phase -fd 'outgoing(URL)'

(URL can be blank for the default push repo).