Generating a list of which files changed between hg versions

Question

I want to generate a list of which files changed between two revisions in a given directory in Mercurial.

In particular, I am not interested in what changed, but which files changed in that directory.

E.g., supposing that between then and otherthen, only 2 files changed:

>hg hypothetical-command -r then:otherthen
foo.baz
bar.baz
>

What's the hypothetical command? I've tried diff and log, but I can't see how to convince them to do it: either I get the patch(diff), or I get the whole repo(log).

Answer 1

hg status --rev x:y

where x and y are desired revision numbers (or tag or branch names).

If you are using the terminal in windows add hg status --rev x:y> your-file.txt to save the list to a file.

Answer 2

status is what you need.

But, depending what you mean by "between two revisions", you might also consider using the "x::y" (DAG - Directed Acyclic Graph) range.

Given parallel changesets,

1--2---4 \---3

hg status --rev 1:4 would return (1,2,3,4), i.e. anything between and including the endpoints, according to the local, numerical rev. This might (and most probably will) return different results in other - though related - repositories!

hg status --rev 1::4 would return (1,2,4), i.e. the endpoints, and all changesets which are descendants of '1' AND ancestors of '4'.

The latter case, x::y, is usually more useful in real-world applications. This is what you get via TortoiseHg\Visual Diff.

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>hg help revsets:

"x::y" A DAG range, meaning all changesets that are descendants of x and ancestors of y, including x and y themselves. If the first endpoint is left out, this is equivalent to "ancestors(y)", if the second is left out it is equivalent to "descendants(x)".