Getting better summary from hg incoming

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Doug Philips <dgou at mac.com> wrote:
> On Friday, April 18, 2008, at 01:21PM, "Giorgos Keramidas"  wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:36:47 -0400, "Paul Chiusano" wrote:
>  >> Hi,
>  >> Is there a way I can customize what information is presented by the
>  >> incoming command? I'd like to know not just which files were touched
>  >> by the changesets, but how they were altered - like whether they were
>  >> added, deleted, or renamed. Like, if I do: hg incoming, I'd like to
>  >> see something like:
>  ...
>
> >> Is this possible?
>  >
>  >Hehe!  That's interesting, indeed :)
>  >
>  >I've written short wrappers around incoming and outgoing to see only
>  >*minimal* information and then browse the changes of a bundle later,
>  >which is kind of the inverse operation:
>
>  And speaking of 'incoming' output :) is anyone else confused/annoyed by
>  the fact that hg log and hg incoming show the history reversed from each
>  other? I'd really like to see a switch to log so that I can see the newest
>  stuff last (as incoming shows it), rather than having to remember to use
>  -l or pipe through head....

Adrian already hinted at it below, but to make it explicit: Instead of
using head to see the most recent bunch of entries, you can just use
`hg log --limit`.