Extracting bare revision numbers from $ hg log (or something similar)
Alan Mackenzie
acm at muc.de
Tue Aug 23 07:42:54 UTC 2016
Hello, Nathan.
On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 01:23:41PM -0500, Nathan Goldbaum wrote:
> Append "-T '{rev}\n'" to your use of "hg log". See "hg help templates" for
> more information about mercurial's template system.
That is a truly magnificent reply, exactly what I need! Thank you very
much.
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm at muc.de> wrote:
> > Hello, Mercurial.
> > I can get an hg log of revisions I'm interested in with a command like
> > the following:
> > $ hg log -b default -X.hgtags -rdefault:5389
> > . What I really want is just the revision numbers, so that I can feed
> > these through into a script. Of course, I could extract these revision
> > numbers myself from the result of the 'hg log ...', but it strikes me
> > there surely must be an hg command I can feed the parameters
> > -b default -X.hgtags -rdefault:5389
> > into to get a list of wanted revisions. I haven't been able to find any
> > such command by perusing the hg man page. Is there one?
> > If there isn't such a command, is there some other way of doing what I
> > want which is less work (including reading documentation) than writing a
> > script to extract them from the output of the log command?
> > Thanks in advance!
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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