Generating a mercurial branch diagram

[Robert Cronk]

On Apr 23, 2012, at 3:46 PM, Angel Ezquerra <angel.ezquerra at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Martin Geisler <mg at aragost.com> wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>> As for finding the branch points, then I think this should help:
>>
>>  hg log -r "parents(branch(B)) and not branch(B))"
>>
>> It finds changesets outside the branch, but with a child on the branch.
>> They denote points in the graph where the branch started or where other
>> branches were merged into it.
>>
>>> If you can help, I thank you in advance for taking the time to help me
>>> with this.
>>>
>>> Robert
>
> I think that it should be possible and not too hard to generate a
> graphviz file from the hg log output.
>
> If I recall correctly Matt was thinking about adding a flexible output
> format which perhaps could be used for this once it is complete?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Angel

Martin - thank you for your guidance. I apologize for contacting you
directly. I'll use the email list from now on. I tried your hg command
and it appears to give me a parent branch for each branch I pass in. I
should be able to build a tree with that pretty easily. I'll post the
code if I do. It will be in python.

Angel - I'd like to take the tree from the code I'm about to write and
push it into some sort of graphical generation library. When I do
that, I'll post the code here. I'm getting into matplotlib lately, so
I'll try that first unless someone thinks that's a bad idea.

Thanks again,
Robert