Formatting inconsistency - {parents} vs {children}

[Kevin Bullock]

On Dec 5, 2012, at 5:30 AM, Jan Vrany wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've just found out that there is an inconsistency in template variables.
> 
> * {parents} expands to an empty string or short changeset id.
>  if --debug is given, full, 20bytes node is printed, always.
>  Also. no mention of --debug in help
> 
> * {children} expands to short changeset id _always_, no matter
>  if --debug is given or not.

This sounds like a bug. The normal behavior everywhere is to print full IDs when --debug is specified.

> Is there any way how to expand {children} to full node ids?
> 
> In any case, I found this inconsistent and rather confusing
> Also, --debug to get full ids is bit strange. I understand
> that human beings rarely want full ids when short is sufficient,
> but think about machine interface (my case :-)
> What about --full-id global option to force full ids wherever
> an changeset id is printed?

A machine interface should be able to use --debug perfectly well (and probably ought to do). That being said, do you know about the command server and hglib?

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