distance to tag

[Mads Kiilerich]

On 02/27/2014 03:05 PM, Benjamin Pollack wrote:
> Unless I’m badly misunderstanding, I think you just want:
>
> 	hg parent --template '{latesttag}+{latesttagdistance}-{node|short}\n’
>
> You can obviously tweak the exact output format; the above is borrowed from Hg itself, if I recall correctly, but is also what Kiln uses.

I think there are valid use cases where you want to control which tag it 
should use. It would for instance not work for us. Just picking the 
"latest" tag is not very useful if you have tags for different purposes 
and perhaps on different branches.

/Mads