status: add -c (clean) and -A (all files) options also add new localrepo.status what is more uniform than localrepo.changes. localrepo.changes is deprecated and will go away soon.

#!/bin/sh

hg init
echo This is file a1 > a
hg add a
hg commit -m "commit #0" -d "1000000 0"
touch b
hg add b
rm b
hg commit -A -m"comment #1" -d "1000000 0"