# hg parents

## show the parents of the working directory or revision (DEPRECATED)

Contents

- Synopsis
- Description
- Options

# Synopsis

    hg parents [-r REV] [FILE]

# Description

Print the working directory's parent revisions. If a revision is given via -r/--rev, the parent of that revision will be printed. If a file argument is given, the revision in which the file was last changed (before the working directory revision or the argument to --rev if given) is printed.

This command is equivalent to:

    hg log -r "p1()+p2()" or
    hg log -r "p1(REV)+p2(REV)" or
    hg log -r "max(::p1() and file(FILE))+max(::p2() and file(FILE))" or
    hg log -r "max(::p1(REV) and file(FILE))+max(::p2(REV) and file(FILE))"

See `hg summary` and `hg help revsets` for related information.

Returns 0 on success.

# Options

`-r, --rev <REV>`
| show parents of the specified revision
`--style <STYLE>`
| display using template map file (DEPRECATED)
`-T, --template <TEMPLATE>`
| display with template