templates and the log --debug output the extra fields

[Uwe Brauer]

>>> "SF" == Steve Fink <sphink at gmail.com> writes:

> On 1/3/21 7:48 AM, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>> Can anybody please point out to me the required syntax for this field?

> I've never played with this stuff before, but it was intriguing, and
> this seemed to work for the basic case when saved to a file
> /tmp/templatestuff:

> %include map-cmdline.default

> [templates]
> changeset =
> '{cset}{branches}{bookmarks}{ltopic}{tags}{parents}{luser}{ldate}{summary}{lfiles}\n'

> ltopic = "{if(get(extras, "topic"),label("log.topic",
> "topic:       {get(extras, "topic")}\n"))}"

Thanks, this was what I was looking for!

> ----

> I ran with `hg log --style /tmp/templatestuff`. (You'd probably want to
> override changeset_verbose, changeset_brief, etc. as well.)

Yes I most likely only use ltopic

> I will also note that this kind of goes against the idea of topics, as
> things that only apply to draft revisions, and so I could imagine it
> breaking if stale topics were discarded at some time in the future. But

Well I use topic quite a bit, but sometimes find it useful to find out
which changesets belong(ed) to a certain topic. I hope this feature will
stay in the future, as I don't see any contradiction to the topic
philosophy.
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