How to view commit messages?

Tue Jun 30 12:40:20 UTC 2020

On 6/30/20 2:29 PM, Chris Green wrote:
> This is silly, I'm sure it must be trivial to do, but I can't see how
> to view commit messages. 

I took me a while to learn about it myself!

Use hg log -v

The verbosity is about the message itself :-)

>  In particular I want to see the last commit
> message for a specified file.
>
So… hg log -v -l 1 path/to/the/file should do the trick

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