distance to tag

[Kastner Masilko, Friedrich]

> From: mercurial-bounces at selenic.com [mailto:mercurial-bounces at selenic.com] On Behalf Of Johannes Totz
> 
> How do I get the number of revisions between a given revision X and
> another given tag/revision Y (along the longest or shortest path)? I
> know there's latesttagdistance but it's not quite what I'm after.
> 
> I guess something like...
> hg log -r X:Y --template "{node|short}" | wc -l
> 
> ...would work. But is there a built-in function? I'm mainly on windows,
> no wc there.

May I ask why you need the distance? Is it perhaps some kind of dot-version generation from revision ancestry?

Regards,
Fritz



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