In Mercurial (hg), how do you see a list of files that will be pushed if an “hg push” is issued?

Question

We can see all the changesets and the files involved using

hg outgoing -v

but the filenames are all scattered in the list of changesets.

Answer 1

I usually use

hg outgoing -v | grep files

It makes the listing shorter, but doesnt sort. But thus far I havent been in a situation where I want to push so much (and at the same time check the files) that its been a problem.

[Edit] To do what you want:

• Use cut to remove the files: part
• For changesets with more than one touched file, use tr to put them on separate lines
• Finally sort the resulting output with sort

Like so:

hg outgoing -v |grep files: |cut -c 14- |tr ' ' '\n' |sort -u

You can put this in ~/outgoingfiles.sh or something to have it nice and ready.