Showing renames in hg status?

Question

I know that Mercurial can track renames of files, but how do I get it to show me renames instead of adds/removes when I do hg status? For instance, instead

Answer 1

You can find out how many files have been renamed with hg summary. If you want to see the actual files that were renamed, the fastest way I've found is to do:

hg st -a -C

This will output something like this:

A 
  
A 
A 
  

Since hg status considers a rename to be a copy and a remove, your renamed files will list a copied from file. Files that were added but not renamed will not list a copied from file.