David Bustos writes:
> Quoth James Carlson on Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 10:05:32AM -0400:
> > Finding that the active list -- something I sometimes use to remind
> > myself exactly what I'm working on or what things I haven't done yet
> > -- needs the parent is disappointing.  I can get used to it, and
> > change how I work, but it'll take time.
> 
> You probably already know this, but you can do that without the parent,
> since Mercurial has all of the history.  You just need to know the
> revision of the parent the last time you sync'ed up.  If you've pulled
> & merged you can find the revision pretty easily with hg log -m.
> Otherwise you'll have to look through hg log for your first local
> changeset.  Then you can list the active list with "hg st --rev $rev",
> optionally with "-mard" to avoid ignored files.

Yes ... the discussion has wandered around a bit between the Cadmium
tools (where I was noting the issue at one point with 'webrev', which
doesn't seem to have that option) and the hg tools.

> I'm not sure whether it's a good idea for Cadmium to cache that version
> to obviate the parent query.

It'd be one way to do it.  I'm not sure if Cadmium always knows when
pull is done, but I suspect it could.

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