Clean way of extracting rename information from mercurial

Patrick Mézard pmezard at gmail.com
Wed Nov 28 11:21:37 CST 2007


Brendan Cully a écrit :
> On Wednesday, 28 November 2007 at 09:06, Yaron Minsky wrote:
>> Is there a nice way to ask mercurial how files have been renamed between
>> two revisions?  The reason for the question is that we're trying to put
>> together a diff tool that is intelligent about renames, but for now, the
>> only way we've managed to get our hands on the data is to parse through
>> the output of "hg diff --git", which is somewhat error prone.
> 
> you can use hg status -arC --rev <old>:<new>

Unfortunately, it might not work right now (http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/issue760).


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