Defining an “Active” Change Set Using Mercurial?

Question

If you have changes A, B, C, D, E in your repo and you perform hg update -c D , how can you confirm that your repo is currently “active” with change set D? If we run hg tip or hg head , HG displays E, not D.

Answer 1

There are several ways to find this:

• hg summary
• hg identify
• hg log -r .

Note that hg update actually changes the revision of your working copy, so you should definitely not use it.