hg-parents(1)

hg-parents1

Show the parents of the working directory or revision (deprecated)

Usage

hg parents [-r REV] [FILE]

Overview

Print the working directory's parent revisions. If a revision is given via -r/--rev, the parent of that revision will be printed. If a file argument is given, the revision in which the file was last changed (before the working directory revision or the argument to --rev if given) is printed.

This command is equivalent to:

hg log -r "p1()+p2()" or
hg log -r "p1(REV)+p2(REV)" or
hg log -r "max(::p1() and file(FILE))+max(::p2() and file(FILE))" or
hg log -r "max(::p1(REV) and file(FILE))+max(::p2(REV) and file(FILE))"

See hg summary and hg help revsets for related information.

Returns 0 on success.

Options

-r,--rev <REV>

show parents of the specified revision

--style <STYLE>

display using template map file (DEPRECATED)

-T,--template <TEMPLATE>

display with template

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