hg revert confusion

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 11:17:19AM -0700, George Garvey wrote:
>    Introduced a bug in project under hg. The only way I could find to
> check out old versions was hg clone; followed by hg revert.

You want hg update <revision>.

> It appears that hg revert silently changes the working copy with
> each invocation with a differ rev as option.

You command, it obeys.

>    But: I never could find a way to tell which rev the working copy
> was, by using hg itself. I just had to know.

hg parents.

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