On Mar 17, 2011, at 3:24 AM, Colin Barrett wrote: > > http://hg.adium.im/adium-1.4/graph > > It doesn't really matter that they're in there (hg bisect don't care ;) but > you *can* prevent them. Especially when switching around between branches and > going back within history, it's really easy to make a commit on top of an old > version, or try and do a merge from a crazy revision. > > Before you do a merge or commit, use the `hg parent` command to check what > the parent rev of the current working directory is -- if it doesn't look like > tip, run an `hg up`. You can also use `hg parents` see both parents when > you're int he process of merging. > > -Colin
'hg summary' will tell you if you're not all the way up to date, as well as show a variety of other useful information.
