Writing a template which displays only relevant parents

[Yuya Nishihara]

On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 19:54:52 +0100, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2016-02-09 00:32:27 +0900, you wrote:
> 
> > ...
> > It worked for me:
> > 
> > [ui]
> > logtemplate = rev: {
> >               rev
> >               } node: {short(
> >               node)}\n
> 
> Well,  your example works for me, too.   Experimenting a  little further
> with my failed attempts to break  my "log" template into multiple lines,
> I found that you can only break the template into multiple lines,  if it
> either does  not contain any  escaped quotes,  or if the  whole template
> definition is included in quotes.   If the multiple line template is not
> a string,  neither `\"´ nor `\'´ are accepted,  while `\n´ is.   Is this
> the way it should work?

Can you provide an example that doesn't work? I've tried one that contains
\", but it seems working.

  logtemplate = {"foo\"
                 "}\n

Also, you can use "hg config ui.logtemplate" to see how ui.logtemplate is
parsed as a config value.

> > {"{"{rev}"}"} is fully valid since Mercurial 3.5.
> 
> That's perhaps a little bit  surprising  at first glance and should thus
> be pointed out more clearly in the documentation.

Yep.