# hg summary

## summarize working directory state

Contents

- Synopsis
- Description
- Options
- Aliases

# 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