TortoiseHg Visual Diff Context Menu

[Steve Borho]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:12 AM, behofmann <behofmann at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry, I thought when trying Mercurial I was able to select the revision
> number associated with a file.  To rephrase my question, what is the way
> intended to tell the latest revision of a file?  I noticed there is a
> "default tip" associated with some files.  I'm used to seeing file revisions
> labeled with a counter incremented by one for each change.

In the changelog, there is a context menu option in the file list pane
to view a file's history.  This will filter the revision graph to just
those revisions which modify that file.

On the CLI, hg parents [FILE] will tell you the last change that
modified a file.

> Is the intent to use the changelog date for the most recent file revision
> and revision tags to see all files assoicated with a release?  I want to be
> able to get a particular release or file from the repository for testing
> purposes.

Also on the file context menu is the option to write to a file the
contents of the file at that revision.  You usually want to just
update the entire repository to a particular revision, so everything
is consistent.

--
Steve Borho