A truly linear file history

[Bob Hood]

On 10/22/2013 10:44 AM, Simon King wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Bob Hood <bhood2 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> This is a log mining question.
>>
>> I'm amusing myself by writing a utility that does a Subversion-like "blame"
>> mechanism for a Mercurial repository.  I have it working, but I'm running
>> into a problem with the "hg log" command.  I cannot seem to find the right
>> combination of command-line options to produce a fully linear file history,
>> running from the point of introduction (initial check-in) up to the
>> last/latest change.  This is required in order to faithfully reconstruct the
>> current state of the file.
> Just to check: you do know about "hg blame", don't you?


Actually, no, I didn't know about that.  I knew about TortoiseHG's "Annotate
Files", but I didn't realize there was an actual "blame" function (which it
would appear, "Annotate Files" uses).

That greatly simplifies my project.  Thanks.  ;)