Determining 'active' changeset with Mercurial?

Question

If you have changesets A, B, C, D, E in your repo and you execute hg update -c D, how can you confirm that your repo is currently 'active' with changeset D? If we run hg tip or hg head, HG lists E and not D.

Answer 1

There are several ways to find this out:

• hg summary
• hg identify
• hg log -r .

Note that hg update actually changes the revision of your working copy, so you definitely should not use that.