---
name: "hg-summary"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "mercurial"
version: "7.2.4-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/hg-summary"
---

# hg-summary(1)

summarize working directory state

## NAME

hg summary - summarize working directory state

## SYNOPSIS

```
hg summary [--remote]
```

## DESCRIPTION

This generates a brief summary of the working directory state, including parents, branch, commit status, phase and available updates.

With the --remote option, this will check the default paths for incoming and outgoing changes. This can be time-consuming.

Returns 0 on success.

## OPTIONS

- **--remote**

  check for push and pull

## ALIASES

```
sum
```