Head
hg heads [-r REV] [REV]...
A head is a changeset with no child changesets. The tip is the most recently changed head. Other heads are recent pulls into a repository that have not yet been merged.
If you have just made a commit, that commit will be the tip. Alternately, if you have just pulled from another repository, the tip of that repository becomes the current tip.
Mercurial supports multiple heads concurrently within a single repository.
Help text: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hg.1.html#heads
See also: Branch, WorkingDirectory
Definitions
(from http://selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2009-June/013030.html)
- head
- a changeset that has no children
- branch
- the set of all changesets with the same branch name
- branch head
- a changeset in a branch that has no children in that branch (not the same as head!)
- active branch head
- a branch head that is also a head
- inactive branch head
- a branch head that has a child not in the same branch
- closed branch head
- a branch head with a closed marker
- closed branch
- a branch with only closed heads