--- 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())