Using '..' to refer to parent revision

Julian Cowley julian at lava.net
Sun May 11 22:00:41 UTC 2008


There are several ways I know of to refer to a revision:

- by revision number
- by changeset ID
- by tag
- by branch name
- by the keyword 'tip'
- by the keyword 'null'
- by the symbol '.'

Concerning that last item, I don't know if it is documented anywhere (I 
found it by guessing), but I find it useful in diff commands, such as:

hg diff -r . -r tip

I was just thinking that having a '..' would be really useful (assuming 
there's only one parent).  Then one could do something like:

hg diff -r ..
hg up ..

Perhaps there is another way to do this?

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