Question

I didn’t see anything on the documentation that allows me to see which files are updated when updating my working directory. Is there any way to ask mercurial to show this?

I presume I could always run hg diff before hg update, but that would be redundant and slow down the process if I want to do this every time I update (I presume that hg update collects a list of files to update itself, is that right?).

Answer 1

I think hg update -v will do what you want:

$ hg init hgtest
$ cd hgtest
$ echo this > afile
$ hg commit -A -m first
adding afile
$ hg update -v null
resolving manifests
removing afile
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg update -v
resolving manifests
getting afile
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved