Examining a single changeset in Mercurial

Question

In Mercurial, how do you examine a single changeset? hg log -l 5 will give me a summary of the newest 5 changesets, but how do I get a list of the files changed in one changeset? I don't want to do a diff.

Solution 1

Pass -v to log and it will print out additional information, including a list of files changed.

Example:

hg log -v -r<rev> | grep ^files

Solution 2

I was looking for the same thing and found the following command, which is more what I was looking for:

hg status --change <rev>

Found in this article.

Solution 3

If you want to see how did the contents of the files were changed for a given revision you can use:

hg diff --change <rev>

If you want to see the diff between the current revision and the one you are interested in, you can use:

hg diff -r <rev>

Comments

[Tim Pietzcker]

Changed in comparison to what? I don't quite see how you want to do that without a diff.

[hekevintran]

I want a list of the files in the diff, but I don't want to see the diff.

[StayOnTarget]

Possible duplicate of Mercurial - all files that changed in a changeset?

[zaxy78]

worked best for me. uset '.' of course for current REV, hg status --change .