hg summary?

[Benoit Boissinot]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 06:25:45PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> I'm considering a new command that can summarize the state of the
> working directory, including its relationship to the repository. It
> would combine information currently available from parents, id, status,
> branch, resolve, and log.

Good idea!

> It might look something like this:
> 
> $ hg summary
> parent: 8:9f7ea411f54e 1.2
>  Another long-overdue update
> branch: default
> commit: 1 unknown (clean)

Why is (clean) needed?

maybe (nothing to commit) instead?

> update: 12 new changesets, 2 branch heads (merge)

maybe be more explicit (especially since merge is used in commit too)

(merge required) ?


cheers,

Benoit
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