Can hg log show only the ancestors of a given revision?

Question

One thing I really miss moving from svn to mercurial is that mercurial's hg log command insists on showing all history rather than only the history of my current working revision.

For example, I'm working on a repo with a lot of check-ins to another head within my branch, and the first 20 log entries have nothing to do with my line of development.

There are a bunch of options to hg log, but...
--rev shows the revision asked for but not its ancestors
--branch doesn't work because the active head is in the same branch as mine
--prune removes all ancestors of the other head, even if they're also my ancestors
--user doesn't work because I'm not the only user in this line of development

I guess I could hg strip, but that seems like overkill...

Thoughts?
Ryan

Answer 1

If you've got Mercurial 1.6 or later, you can use revsets to do this:

hg log --rev "ancestors(.)"
hg log --rev "reverse(ancestors(.))"  # Output in the same order as vanilla hg log