Mercurial - compare local and remote repositories?

Question

In Git, there is the command

git remote show <remote>

When properly configured, this will show you the status of the remote compared to your local repository, including whether there are pending changes in either. I can't find a similar command in Mercurial. Am I missing something or does it just not exist?

Castiron

Answer 1

Perhaps hg summary --remote?

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Perfect. 7 minutes til I can accept the answer. Arbitrary rule is arbitrary. – Castiron

Note that this only works with a default remote. You cannot compare against a named remote. – Trabue

Answer 2

To compare local and remote repositories follow these steps:

1. go to local repo folder (use cd path_to_local_repo)
2. run "hg outgoing -p path_to_remote_repo" (without quotes)

See GenerateDiffBetweenRepositories

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