how do you tell if you're at an old rev?
Matt Mackall
mpm at selenic.com
Wed Dec 12 16:55:50 UTC 2007
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 09:23:22PM -0800, Dustin Sallings wrote:
>
> On Dec 11, 2007, at 18:18, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>
> > Merging doesn't "create" a local branch. Committing on top of an old
> > change does though :)
>
>
> But then you can easily get lost. I had this issue today. Someone
> updated our ``stable'' branch such that tip was a commit on that branch.
>
> ``hg parents'' indicated neither that I was at the latest change in
> default, nor tip (since it's not tip and not a named branch and not an
> extra head).
That sounds like something we ought to fix. Open to suggestions.
> So I'm not in an ``old'' rev, but the output of parents is
> indistinguishable from when I am.
For the meantime, you can triangulate your position by comparing with
'hg branches'.
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