Show incoming changes for specific file/dir

[Matt Mackall]

On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 13:58 +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> >> > --
> >> > 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/
> 
> I do not understand the first command. It lists incoming changes for
> `in.hg` branch in remote repository in `quiet` mode. It makes sense
> only if -b is --bundle flag and it downloads all changesets.

Yes, that would indeed make sense in the given context.

>  I'd say
> that diminishes the whole purpose of `svn log log -r HEAD:BASE -v`
> which is used as a _quick_ way to check for changes for files I am
> currently working on in cases the whole sync might take a while.

Ok, yes, it's as fast as incoming and no faster.

> BTW, I dumped whole incoming log into separate file and searched in
> it. Worked for now. Thanks.

..but it's no slower than this hack.

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