Question

When you do hg log on a file, only the revisions that underwent changes are listed. I’d like to see what the most recent revision for all of the files in a directory is. (Think hg blame at a file level rather than a line level.)

I had thought that hg log -l 1 * might work, but it just shows the most recent revision across all of the files.

Here’s the kind of output I’d like to see:

> hg blame --files
foo: 15
bar: 2
baz: 15
README: 1

Answer 1

Another alternative is to use a combination of hg status and hg log, like this:

for FILE in $(hg status -nA); do
    hg log -l1 --template '{rev}\t' "$FILE"
    echo $FILE
done