Question

I have a number of Mercurial projects checked out under a common “Development” directory. What is the easiest way for me to list all projects under this directory that have outgoing changesets that haven’t been pushed to the parent repository? Going into each project directory and running hg outgoing isn’t ideal.

Answer 1

The easiest approach I have found is the following script:

#!/bin/bash
IFS=$(printf "\n\b")
for project in `find . -type d -name .hg`
do
    pushd -- "$project" > /dev/null || exit 1
    cd .. > /dev/null
    if hg outgoing | grep changeset: > /dev/null
    then
       echo `pwd`
    fi
    popd > /dev/null
done

NOTES

1. If you’re using MQ but aren’t versioning the patch
   repository you’ll want to change the find command above to
   find . -type d -name .hg | grep -v .hg/patches/.hg
2. If you want to list all projects with uncommitted work change the if statement to
   if [ `hg status | wc -l` -gt 0 ]