Referring to the tip of a remote repository via revset or bookmark

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 20:52 +0100, Alexander Krauss wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a repository (call it BIG) that is meant to be always a superset 
> of another repository (call it SMALL), which is achieved by regular 
> automatic pulls via cron (but no automated merges or such things: 
> multiple heads in BIG are just fine)
> 
> I am looking for an easy way to refer to the tip of SMALL from within 
> BIG, that is, the equivalent of
> 
>    hg -R SMALL tip --style '{node|short}'
> 
> but preferably in a way that interacts better with revset expressions. 
> Ideally I would like to be able to write something like
> 
>    hg log -r remote_tip(SMALL)

You can do remote revision lookups with:

 hg id -r <tag, branch, or bookmark> <url>

I've been meaning to add a remote() predicate to revsets for this
purpose, maybe this afternoon...

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