Mercurial Feature request

[Tom Anderson]

On 26/10/12 15:40, Antonio Paolini wrote:
> I'm looking for how to release a tarball and I see the "archive" 
> command. I wonder if could be possible more customization of the 
> tarball filename, not only with the export format strings but also 
> with some "template".
> I wish to obtain a name like %b-{tag}-"rev"%r-{date|shortdate}.tar.gz, 
> for example, i.e. "mysoftware-1.0rev17-2012-10-26.tar.gz.

+1

In the meantime, you could use hg log to build the format string. 
Something like:

hg archive "$(hg log -r . --template 
'%b-{tags}-rev%r-{date|shortdate}.tar.gz')"

hg log will interpret the {keywords} and leave the %directives 
untouched; hg archive will then interpret the latter.

tom

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