Question

One thing I like about git is that it tells me my status compared to the remote repo. For instance:

git status

yields

# On branch master
# Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 1 commit.

Is there a way to enable something similar in hg? It helps me track whether I have changes to push remotely or not.

Answer 1

hg incoming: see if the remote repo has changes not yet in your local copy.

hg outgoing: see if your local copy has changesets not present in the remote.

hg next: a command provided by the "gestalt" extension distributed by Fog Creek which combines the above two commands. See hg help gestalt if you have the extension installed.