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merge-base analog for Mercurial and bzr (to find common ancestors as possible for a merge)?

Git have merge-base command that show common ancestors of two or more branches.

What analog for Mercurial and bzr?

Solution

  • Use revsets:

    "ancestor(single, single)"
      Greatest common ancestor of the two changesets.

$ hg log -r 'ancestor(rev1, rev2)'