Show incoming changes for specific file/dir

[Matt Mackall]

On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 12:25 +0200, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On 01/05/11 11:26, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > How can I see incoming changes for specific file/dir from remote repository?
> > In svn I do:
> >    svn log log -r HEAD:BASE -v
> >
> > Please CC.
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> > anatoly t.
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> 
> AFAICT, you cannot limit the output of "hg incoming" to only one file; 
> but after doing
> 	hg --verbose incoming > incoming.log
> which can be abbreviated to
> 	hg -v in > incoming.log
> 
> you can examine the result (using the search function in any good text 
> editor) to find any incoming changesets for the file or directory in 
> question.
> 
> Or instead of logging, on Unix-like systems you could pipe the output to 
> the "less" pager and search using its / and n commands.

Another alternative is to use a bundle:

hg in -q -b in.hg
hg -R in.hg log somedirectory/

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