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changeset 6364:b22b39059722

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Make tip help more helpful
author Patrick Mezard <pmezard@gmail.com>
date Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:40:27 +0100
parents bbfebf751ac8
children 1d3eb332f3cb
files mercurial/commands.py
diffstat 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/mercurial/commands.py	Sun Mar 23 20:37:04 2008 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Sun Mar 23 21:40:27 2008 +0100
@@ -2716,7 +2716,15 @@
 def tip(ui, repo, **opts):
     """show the tip revision
 
-    Show the tip revision.
+    The tip revision (usually just called the tip) is the most
+    recently added changeset in the repository, the most recently
+    changed head.
+
+    If you have just made a commit, that commit will be the
+    tip. Alternately, if you have just pulled changes from another
+    repository, the tip of that repository becomes the current tip.
+    The "tip" tag is special and can not be renamed or assigned to a
+    different changeset.
     """
     cmdutil.show_changeset(ui, repo, opts).show(nullrev+repo.changelog.count())