Question

As title, If I do copy from one file to destination file, then I commit the change. Afterwards I want to find parent file of copied file, How can I do? for example…

hg copy file1 file2
hg ci -m "copy file1 to file2"

how to find parent of file2? If I use hg parents command, only find parent of changeset not file2.

thanks….

Answer 1

Use –template for format log:

hg log --template "{file_copies}\n" file2.txt

Filter empty strings (first line – in Unix, second – in Windows):

hg log --template "{file_copies}\n" file2.txt | grep .
hg log --template "{file_copies}\n" file2.txt | findstr /R "."