Say I have a repository with 5 changesets.
I run hg update 1 to update the working directory to changeset 1.
I run hg update 3 to update the working directory to changeset 3.
I run hg update 5 to update the working directory to changeset 5.
At this point, is there a command I can run that will show me a history of the previous working directory changesets? For example, a command like hg updatelog that would return the following:
changeset 5: 2013-05-21 16:46
changeset 3: 2013-05-21 16:08
changeset 1: 2013-05-18 08:32
I'm specifically interested in just the previous changeset, but a full history would be great too. This would obviously be a local history since it would be different for every user instance of the repository.
In Mercurial 2.6 there is the Blackbox Extension. Running:
hg blackbox | grep update
contains the information you were looking for.
It returns something like:
2013/05/22 10:02:48 user> update -r1
2013/05/22 10:02:48 user> update exited False after 0.09 seconds
2013/05/22 10:02:52 user> update -r0
2013/05/22 10:02:52 user> update exited False after 0.08 seconds