bookmarks and branches again: files

[Simon King]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> wrote:
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>    > On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> wrote:
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>    > "hg log" uses mercurial's template engine for output, and "file_adds"
>    > is a template keyword that produces a list of files added in a
>    > particular revision. Here's a messy example:
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>    >   hg log -r "adds('.')" --template '{rev} {desc|firstline}\n{file_adds}\n\n'
>
> Very useful, thanks

I did a bit more experimenting, and this is closer to what you asked for:

  hg log -r "adds('.')" --template '{rev} {join(file_adds, "\n{rev} ")}\n'

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>    > I think I'm confused about how you actually use mercurial, and how you
>    > are wanting to use branches or bookmarks. Perhaps if you gave us some
>    > more detail there we would be able to make better suggestions?
>
> 2 scenarios: my own repositories: for example the notes of my courses,
> for each year I use a new branch. I am happy with this approach and I
> have not encountered any problems.
>
> However I have also to maintain matlab mode for emacs, which dwells in
> sourceforge and in github. These are under git control and I use the hg
> plugin to access them. So far I have not used any branching but if I
> would, I should use bookmarks.
>
> Bookmarks however frighten me for the reason that on can accidentally
> delete them. So my question were mostly academic I wanted to see the
> dangers of bookmarks and how to encounter them.
>

OK, in this situation, you are using bookmarks to give names to what
would otherwise be anonymous heads in your repository. The "hg heads"
command (or alternatively "hg log -r 'heads(all())'") will display all
the heads, and presumably by looking through those you would be able
to find the revision you were looking for.

Simon