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Celeritas
Celeritas

Reputation: 15033

getting second newest version of source code

I’m new to Mercurial. I’m trying to clone the second newest commit from the web interface, and everything I’ve red says I need to enter the revision number. However, the web interface only shows “age”, “author”, “description” and at the bottom has “rev 27: (0) tip” I know which one I want based on the description, and it’s the second from the top. How do I get it? I assume when I did hg clone https://... it got the newest version

Upvotes: 0

Views: 58

Answers (1)

Mark Tolonen
Mark Tolonen

Reputation: 177461

Just clone the whole repository, then update to the second newest commit with hg update -r -2.

Note that if you have branches, the "second newest commit" may be on a different branch. In that case, you can list the latest two changes on a particular branch with hg log -b <branch> -l 2, then hg update -r <rev> to the older of the two changesets listed for that branch.

Another way to get the 2nd newest commit on a branch is the following syntax:

hg update <branch>^

For example:

hg update my_branch^

Note on Windows ^ is an escape character for the console, so it must be doubled for one literal ^:

hg update my_branch^^

Another way to get the first ancestor of a branch tip is:

hg update my_branch~1

See also hg help revsets and hg help revisions.

Upvotes: 2

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