make `view diff on commit` a feature that is easy to use

[Katsunori Fujiwara]

2014-11-05 5:50 GMT+09:00 anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>:

> I always do `hg diff` before `hg ci` (sometimes also `hg sum/st`),
> which is very clumsy, so I went to see if something is already
> available.
>
> vim-only
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8009333/vim-show-diff-on-commit-in-mercurial
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/DiffsInCommitMessageInVIM
>
> bash-only
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/hgeditor
>
>
> I've tried to bring my own solution with temporary file, but the
> diff with prepended HG: loses syntax highlighting. So, to make
> this feature more useful, maybe these two things are possible
> to implement:
>
> 1. remove all lines after HG: block, i.e.
> -HG: Enter commit message.  Lines beginning with 'HG:' are removed.
> -HG: Leave message empty to abort commit.
> +HG: Enter commit message.  Lines beginning with 'HG:' and any text
> +HG: after are removed. Leave message empty to abort commit.
>
> 2. hg commit -v  to show diff
>     hg commit -vv to show diff + diffstat
> (grabbed the idea from SO comment above)

Would customization by "[committemplate]" configuration help you ?

    http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hgrc.5.html#committemplate

Combination of "[committemplate]" and the template
function "diff()" allows you to show "diff" of the newly added
revision in your favorite style.

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