Mercurial: annotate / blame current line number

Question

hg annotate -unl aFile

Shows:

jim 1519:477:     a = 4
bob 1518:468:     b = 5
joe 1496:402:     return a

How do I get it to show

jim 401:     a = 4
bob 402:     b = 5
joe 403:     return a

Where 401, 402, 403 are the current line numbers. Better yet would be something like git has with git blame -L 401,403 aFile.

Answer 1

To show current line numbers:

hg annotate -u aFile | cat -n

To also select only a certain range of line numbers:

hg annotate -u aFile | cat -n | sed -n 401,403p

Answer 2

I always use the annotate view in hg serve or from TortoiseHg. I find the command line annotate pretty poor since I cannot quickly jump to a parent revision. The hgweb annotate can be seen here:

• https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/annotate/tip/README

It includes (current) line numbers.