Mercurial getting file-specific log/history information

Question

Is there a way to get file specific information, similar to

hg log

I basically want committer, date/time, and the commit summary, but of just a single file.

Answer 1

You can filter the results of the hg log command by including a filename like so:

hg log file.txt

That will give you the standard log for every changeset where file.txt was changed. You can use

hg log file.txt -l 10 -r "not merge()" 

to limit it to only the last 10 as well as excluding merge changes using revsets