how do you tell if you're at an old rev?

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Tue Dec 11 15:16:23 UTC 2007


On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 07:02:28AM +0100, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Maybe we could add a line to hg st, saying what the parent(s) is/are?

Can't at this point. There are no doubt hundreds of little scripts
that are parsing the output of status.

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