how do you tell if you're at an old rev?
TK Soh
teekaysoh at gmail.com
Tue Dec 11 05:44:47 UTC 2007
On Dec 10, 2007 3:18 PM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 06:25:50PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > If I decide to "go back in time" via hg up <oldrev>, later when I look at my
> > working files, how do I tell that they're not the latest, and need an update?
>
> hg parents
>
> This is one of the most frequently asked questions from new users.
> Every single user needs to understand the hg parents command to
> understand Mercurial. Where and how do we need to document this?
Perhaps 'parents' may not be so clear itself?
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