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Now, I use Console2 + cygwin + ansicon + bash for my Mercurial operation.
There are several hg command that support --style STYLE formatting, e.g. log, outgoing, incoming, tip, parents, heads, glog and serve.
The most useful common with styling is hg log.
I find a good website written by Steve Losh : Styling Mercurial’s CLI, which provide several good style template for hg log, includes "slog", "nlog" and "sglog".
Styling Mercurial’s CLI
Mercurial has a great command line interface and many people use it without
ever feeling the need for a GUI to manage their
repositories. However, we can make it even better by taking advantage of
Mercurial’s templating features.
In this tip I’m going to post some of the templates I use and show you how to
use them yourself. Check out hg help templating if you want more
details on how the templating actually works.
If you like what you see you can grab my templates by cloning their
repository from BitBucket:
hg clone http://bitbucket.org/sjl/mercurial-cli-templates/
NOTE: I’ve customized the colors of
my Terminal, so the colors will look different for you. If you like the colors
I wrote about it.
Short Log
In a
previous tip I described how to create an
hg slog alias that can be very useful for counting changesets. With the right styling it can be useful in your day-to-day work. Here’s what the output of my
hg slog command looks like:
[alias]
slog = log --style=/full/path/to/map-cmdline.slog
Nice Log
The short log is great a quick review of the past few changesets, but for a much more detailed view of a particular changeset I’ve created an hg nlog alias, which looks like this:
[alias]
nlog = log --style=/full/path/to/map-cmdline.nlog
Short Graphlog
The
graphlog command is wonderful for reviewing the history of repositories with branches, but we can make it more compact and easier to read with another template. The result looks like this:
[alias]
sglog = glog --style=/full/path/to/map-cmdline.sglog
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I find a way no need to put /full/path/to/ the map-cmdline.xxx, just need to put the map-cmdline.xxx in C:\Program Files\TortoiseHg\templates, the set the alias as:
[alias]
slog = log --style slog
nlog = log --style nlog
sglog = log --style sglog
Then just try the following command:
hg slog -l10
hg slog -l10 -v
hg nlog -r tip
hg nlog -r tip -p
hg sglog -l8
hg sglog -l8 -v
Have fun :)
