mercurial (hg) syntax equivalent of git's "^", meaning the commit PRIOR to the specified commit.

Question

In git, for a given commit X, X^ means the commit prior to X.

Is there an hg equivalent?

Answer 1

The parentrevspec extension is bundled with mercurial, but extensions are not activated by default. You'll need to edit the exensions section of your hgrc.

[extensions]
parentrevspec =