Retrieving log from remote repository
Adrian Buehlmann
adrian at cadifra.com
Tue Mar 25 23:43:19 UTC 2008
On 25.03.2008 18:05, Dmitry Nezhevenko wrote:
> Hi. SVN has followed command, which is currently useful for me:
> svn log --limit 1 <REPO>
>
> where <REPO> can be url to remote repository (http://, svn://,
> svn+ssh://).
>
> It retrieves last log message from VCS.
>
> Is it any way to get same results for mercurial (without cloning repo).
> Remote repository can be not under my control so no server-side
> hooks/scripts are allowed.
>
> Any way to get same behaviour from mercurial? As for me, parsing HTTP
> output by hands is not good solution.
See http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/FAQ
Entires:
4.18. How can I do a "hg log" of a remote repository?
4.19. How can I find out if there are new changesets in a remote repository?
You can get a raw text patch of the tipmost changeset like
this: http://selenic.com/repo/index.cgi/hg/raw-rev
"tip" -> http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/Tip
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