Mercurial equivalent to git's HEAD~1

Question

In git it's quite convenient to identify a commit relative to the latest commit in the repo with HEAD~1.

I have searched and cannot find an equivalent for this in mercurial. I find mercurials revision numbers rather annoying.

Answer 1

There is a mercurial extension that adds git like commands.
Specific command is hg log -pr .^1.

For extra information, see examining a changeset in hg

Edit: Use .^1, not tip^1. As mentioned below, tip gives the most recent commit in the entire repo, which is possibly not what you want. The . is closer in meaning to git's HEAD. (See also: Specify dot as a revision in Mercurial)