Question

I have tagged a set of code to be uploaded to our server.

However, I’m wondering about the options to maintain it afterwards. Theoretically Mercurial’s changesets could be used to ‘export’ all the files that have been changed since the tagged changeset, so that following subsequent builds I only need to upload the files that have been changed.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

There’s probably several ways of getting that list of files, but here’s one:

hg diff --stat -r TAG:

This will output something like this:

[C:\Dev\VS.NET\DiffLib] :hg diff --stat -r 27:
 .hgignore                                           |    2 +
 Binaries.fbp7                                       |  Bin
 Binaries.fbpInf                                     |   13 +-----
   ...
 19 files changed, 370 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)

---

Here’s another, using the log command with XML output:

[C:\Dev\VS.NET\DiffLib] :hg log --style=XML --verbose -r 27:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<log>
<logentry revision="27" node="fc6db773ccbb335cc11f42ea4588adea6b179cd8">
<author email="[e-mail]">Lasse V. Karlsen</author>
<date>2010-11-30T12:03:38+01:00</date>
<msg xml:space="preserve">Ensured &quot;.orig&quot; files are ignored.</msg>
<paths>
<path action="M">.hgignore</path>
</paths>
</logentry>
<logentry revision="28" node="a1f739dd59a73d37ff058f3cc89e0b42d535bee5">
<author email="[e-mail]">Lasse V. Karlsen</author>
<date>2010-11-30T12:17:06+01:00</date>
<msg xml:space="preserve">Changed to .NET 3.5 to support more projects. Impl
e&lt;T1,T2&gt;</msg>
<paths>
<path action="M">DiffLib.Tests/DiffLib.Tests.csproj</path>
<path action="M">DiffLib/AlignedDiff.cs</path>
<path action="M">DiffLib/DiffLib.csproj</path>
<path action="M">README.markdown</path>
</paths>
</logentry>