For roughly 16 months I have now been using the distributed version control system (DVCS) mercurial. Before that I was using mostly subversion which was a great companion before I got to know mercurial and started to understand the idea behind a DVCS (for a nice introduction see http://betterexplained.com/articles/intro-to-distributed-version-control-illustrated/, or Linus Torvalds tech talk on git). The switch itself was very easy and I really do not want to go back to a centralized version control system, unless I have to.
When issuing the command hg log one gets some basic information about the changes that were made:
changeset: 15:299410f8be85 user: martin date: Thu Jun 10 23:30:29 2010 +0200 summary: started to work on the highscore changeset: 14:c99d4f7cb0c2 user: martin date: Sun Jun 06 01:35:38 2010 +0200 summary: smaller fixes in the documentation [...] |
However sometimes it is quite helpful to know which files were changed during a commit (for example if you want to know which files might be the culprit for failing tests that used to pass). After a long search I found the simple solution: hg log -v. This produces the following output:
changeset: 15:299410f8be85 user: martin date: Thu Jun 10 23:30:29 2010 +0200 files: asteroids/AsteroidsEnums.h asteroids/AsteroidsEvents.h asteroids/MenuOverlay.h asteroids/Model.cc asteroids/Model.h asteroids/UserInterface.cc asteroids/UserInterface.h asteroids/View.cc engine/Engine.h description: started to work on the highscore changeset: 14:c99d4f7cb0c2 user: martin date: Sun Jun 06 01:35:38 2010 +0200 files: Doxyfile asteroids/AsteroidsEnums.h description: smaller fixes in the documentation [...] |
Yay!