How can I list a series of revisions using 'hg log'?

mercurial mercurial-api

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hg log -r1:5.

Mercurial has an entire mini-language devoted to selecting revisions for commands (not just for logs). For more information, see hg help revsets (needs Mercurial 1.6+).

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Updated on June 05, 2022

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Tim Post about 2 years
I'm attempting to use the hg log command to show a series of revisions, x through y.

When I do this:
```
hg log -r 1+5
```
I get this:
```
changeset:   1:7320d2a9baa5
user:        Tim Post <[email protected]>
date:        Fri Sep 30 20:38:29 2011 +0800
summary:     Foo foo everywhere is foo

changeset:   5:8d6bea76ce60
user:        Tim Post <[email protected]>
date:        Fri Sep 30 20:51:42 2011 +0800
summary:     Blah blah blah
```
Which is Mercurial understanding that I want to see revisions one and five instead of one through five.

Oddly enough, this works:
```
hg log -r 1+2+3+4+5
```
But, that gets extremely cumbersome, especially when trying to get a summary between revisions that are +500 away from each other.

Is there a way to get logs for revisions x through y instead of x and y without concatenating every revision in the series?

I'm using the output in order to determine how many commitments each developer made in a given series. If I simply can't do that using the hg command, I'm more than open to using the Mercurial API. I resorted to the hg command because I did not see an obvious way of doing it via the API.

By API, I mean just using Python via a hook or extension.
Tim Post over 12 years

Thank you. Strange that they don't include breadcrumbs to that in the output of hg log --help.
anton.burger over 12 years

Definitely one of the most enlightened features I've ever seen in any software :) A more recent version (1.9? Not sure) adds the equivalent capability anywhere a list of files (rather than changesets) is expected as an argument.
Tim Post over 12 years

I think I'm going to re-subscribe to the user's list, so I don't miss neat stuff like this coming in. Over the years I've come up with 'interesting' ways to do things with Mercurial, mostly working around features it didn't have. This particular feature gets rid of a few clumsy kludges :)
Lazy Badger over 12 years

Quote from hg help log "If no revision range is specified, the default is "tip:0" unless --follow is set, in which case the working directory parent is used as the starting revision. You can specify a revision set for log, see "hg help revsets" for more information. "