CODEWITHSUNDEEP
mercurial
cawwot
cawwot

Reputation: 225

What is the point of hg incoming?

According to Mercurial's help page, hg incoming (and the "check for incoming changes" button in tortoiseHG does:

"Show new changesets found in the specified path/URL or the default pull location. These are the changesets that would have been pulled by 'hg pull' at the time you issued this command."

My question is: What is the point of this behavior? In what situation would I want to not just pull? If I wanted to see what changesets were pulled, I could just look at the log.

Have I been using mercurial wrong my whole life?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1109

Answers (1)

Arun
Arun

Reputation: 1449

There are various scenarios in which it can be useful. I'm just listing down my use cases hre.

a) I do hg incom to make sure I can pull and get ready to rebase my commits if there is anything on the remote.

b) I use hg log -G followed by hg incom quite often when doing offline peer review to make sure I don't pollute my repo and to know which rev to strip (if required) after the pull. FWIW, as a result of hg incom I have asked people to change their commit message even without pulling their changes for review.

Upvotes: 4

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