Mercurial commandline: How to show changes of a specific revision?

Question

After I pull a new head into my repository, I want to see what files are touched by the new head. Like an hg status but without changing over to i

Answer 1

The status command shows you which files are changed. Use

hg status --rev .:tip

to compare the working copy parent revision (the currently checked out revision) with the tip revision.

If you've pulled more than one changeset, then this is different from

hg status --change tip

That command only shows the files touched by the tip changeset — not the combined changes between the currently checked out changeset (.) and tip.