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3 <chapter id="chap:template">
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4 <title>Customising the output of Mercurial</title>
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5
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6 <para>Mercurial provides a powerful mechanism to let you control how
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7 it displays information. The mechanism is based on templates.
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8 You can use templates to generate specific output for a single
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9 command, or to customise the entire appearance of the built-in web
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10 interface.</para>
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11
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12 <sect1 id="sec:style">
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13 <title>Using precanned output styles</title>
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14
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15 <para>Packaged with Mercurial are some output styles that you can
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16 use immediately. A style is simply a precanned template that
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17 someone wrote and installed somewhere that Mercurial can
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18 find.</para>
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19
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20 <para>Before we take a look at Mercurial's bundled styles, let's
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21 review its normal output.</para>
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22
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23 <para><!-- &interaction.template.simple.normal; --></para>
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24
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25 <para>This is somewhat informative, but it takes up a lot of
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26 space&emdash;five lines of output per changeset. The
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27 <literal>compact</literal> style reduces this to three lines,
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28 presented in a sparse manner.</para>
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29
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30 <para><!-- &interaction.template.simple.compact; --></para>
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31
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32 <para>The <literal>changelog</literal> style hints at the
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33 expressive power of Mercurial's templating engine. This style
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34 attempts to follow the GNU Project's changelog
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35 guidelines<citation>web:changelog</citation>.</para>
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36
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37 <para><!-- &interaction.template.simple.changelog; --></para>
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38
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39 <para>You will not be shocked to learn that Mercurial's default
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40 output style is named <literal>default</literal>.</para>
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41
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42 <sect2>
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43 <title>Setting a default style</title>
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44
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45 <para>You can modify the output style that Mercurial will use
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46 for every command by editing your <filename role="special">
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47 /.hgrc</filename>\ file, naming the style you would prefer
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48 to use.</para>
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49
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50 <programlisting>[ui] style = compact</programlisting>
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51
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52 <para>If you write a style of your own, you can use it by either
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53 providing the path to your style file, or copying your style
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54 file into a location where Mercurial can find it (typically
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55 the <literal>templates</literal> subdirectory of your
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56 Mercurial install directory).</para>
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57
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58 </sect2>
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59 </sect1>
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60 <sect1>
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61 <title>Commands that support styles and templates</title>
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62
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63 <para>All of Mercurial's
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64 <quote><literal>log</literal>-like</quote> commands let you use
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65 styles and templates: <command role="hg-cmd">hg
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66 incoming</command>, <command role="hg-cmd">hg log</command>,
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67 <command role="hg-cmd">hg outgoing</command>, and <command
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68 role="hg-cmd">hg tip</command>.</para>
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69
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70 <para>As I write this manual, these are so far the only commands
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71 that support styles and templates. Since these are the most
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72 important commands that need customisable output, there has been
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73 little pressure from the Mercurial user community to add style
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74 and template support to other commands.</para>
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75
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76 </sect1>
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77 <sect1>
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78 <title>The basics of templating</title>
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79
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80 <para>At its simplest, a Mercurial template is a piece of text.
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81 Some of the text never changes, while other parts are
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82 <emphasis>expanded</emphasis>, or replaced with new text, when
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83 necessary.</para>
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84
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85 <para>Before we continue, let's look again at a simple example of
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86 Mercurial's normal output.</para>
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87
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88 <para><!-- &interaction.template.simple.normal; --></para>
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89
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90 <para>Now, let's run the same command, but using a template to
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91 change its output.</para>
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92
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93 <para><!-- &interaction.template.simple.simplest; --></para>
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94
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95 <para>The example above illustrates the simplest possible
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96 template; it's just a piece of static text, printed once for
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97 each changeset. The <option
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98 role="hg-opt-log">--template</option> option to the <command
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99 role="hg-cmd">hg log</command> command tells Mercurial to use
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100 the given text as the template when printing each
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101 changeset.</para>
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102
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103 <para>Notice that the template string above ends with the text
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104 <quote><literal>\n</literal></quote>. This is an
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105 <emphasis>escape sequence</emphasis>, telling Mercurial to print
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106 a newline at the end of each template item. If you omit this
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107 newline, Mercurial will run each piece of output together. See
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108 section <xref linkend="sec:template:escape"/> for more details
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109 of escape sequences.</para>
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110
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111 <para>A template that prints a fixed string of text all the time
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112 isn't very useful; let's try something a bit more
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113 complex.</para>
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114
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115 <para><!-- &interaction.template.simple.simplesub; --></para>
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116
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117 <para>As you can see, the string
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118 <quote><literal>{desc}</literal></quote> in the template has
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119 been replaced in the output with the description of each
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120 changeset. Every time Mercurial finds text enclosed in curly
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121 braces (<quote><literal>{</literal></quote> and
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122 <quote>\texttt{}}</quote>), it will try to replace the braces
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123 and text with the expansion of whatever is inside. To print a
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124 literal curly brace, you must escape it, as described in section
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125 <xref
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126 linkend="sec:template:escape"/>.</para>
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127
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128 </sect1>
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129 <sect1 id="sec:template:keyword">
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130 <title>Common template keywords</title>
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131
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132 <para>You can start writing simple templates immediately using the
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133 keywords below.</para>
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134
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135 <itemizedlist>
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136 <listitem><para><literal
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137 role="template-keyword">author</literal>: String. The
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138 unmodified author of the changeset.</para>
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139 </listitem>
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140 <listitem><para><literal
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141 role="template-keyword">branches</literal>: String. The
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142 name of the branch on which the changeset was committed.
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143 Will be empty if the branch name was
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144 <literal>default</literal>.</para>
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145 </listitem>
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146 <listitem><para><literal role="template-keyword">date</literal>:
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147 Date information. The date when the changeset was
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148 committed. This is <emphasis>not</emphasis> human-readable;
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149 you must pass it through a filter that will render it
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150 appropriately. See section <xref
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151 linkend="sec:template:filter"/> for more information
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152 on filters. The date is expressed as a pair of numbers. The
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153 first number is a Unix UTC timestamp (seconds since January
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154 1, 1970); the second is the offset of the committer's
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155 timezone from UTC, in seconds.</para>
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156 </listitem>
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157 <listitem><para><literal role="template-keyword">desc</literal>:
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158 String. The text of the changeset description.</para>
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159 </listitem>
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160 <listitem><para><literal
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161 role="template-keyword">files</literal>: List of strings.
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162 All files modified, added, or removed by this
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163 changeset.</para>
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164 </listitem>
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165 <listitem><para><literal
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166 role="template-keyword">file_adds</literal>: List of
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167 strings. Files added by this changeset.</para>
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168 </listitem>
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169 <listitem><para><literal
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170 role="template-keyword">file_dels</literal>: List of
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171 strings. Files removed by this changeset.</para>
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172 </listitem>
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173 <listitem><para><literal role="template-keyword">node</literal>:
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174 String. The changeset identification hash, as a
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175 40-character hexadecimal string.</para>
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176 </listitem>
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177 <listitem><para><literal
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178 role="template-keyword">parents</literal>: List of
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179 strings. The parents of the changeset.</para>
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180 </listitem>
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181 <listitem><para><literal role="template-keyword">rev</literal>:
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182 Integer. The repository-local changeset revision
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183 number.</para>
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184 </listitem>
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185 <listitem><para><literal role="template-keyword">tags</literal>:
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186 List of strings. Any tags associated with the
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187 changeset.</para>
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188 </listitem></itemizedlist>
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189
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190 <para>A few simple experiments will show us what to expect when we
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191 use these keywords; you can see the results below.</para>
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192
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193 <!-- &interaction.template.simple.keywords; -->
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194
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195 <para>As we noted above, the date keyword does not produce
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196 human-readable output, so we must treat it specially. This
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197 involves using a <emphasis>filter</emphasis>, about which more
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198 in section <xref
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199 linkend="sec:template:filter"/>.</para>
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200
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201 <para><!-- &interaction.template.simple.datekeyword; --></para>
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202
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203 </sect1>
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204 <sect1 id="sec:template:escape">
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205 <title>Escape sequences</title>
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206
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207 <para>Mercurial's templating engine recognises the most commonly
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208 used escape sequences in strings. When it sees a backslash
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209 (<quote><literal>\</literal></quote>) character, it looks at the
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210 following character and substitutes the two characters with a
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211 single replacement, as described below.</para>
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212
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213 <itemizedlist>
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214 <listitem><para><literal>\textbackslash\textbackslash</literal>:
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215 Backslash, <quote><literal>\</literal></quote>, ASCII
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216 134.</para>
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217 </listitem>
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218 <listitem><para><literal>\textbackslash n</literal>: Newline,
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219 ASCII 12.</para>
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220 </listitem>
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221 <listitem><para><literal>\textbackslash r</literal>: Carriage
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222 return, ASCII 15.</para>
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223 </listitem>
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224 <listitem><para><literal>\textbackslash t</literal>: Tab, ASCII
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225 11.</para>
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226 </listitem>
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227 <listitem><para><literal>\textbackslash v</literal>: Vertical
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228 tab, ASCII 13.</para>
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229 </listitem>
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230 <listitem><para><literal>\textbackslash {</literal>: Open curly
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231 brace, <quote><literal>{</literal></quote>, ASCII
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232 173.</para>
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233 </listitem>
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234 <listitem><para><literal>\textbackslash }</literal>: Close curly
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235 brace, <quote><literal>}</literal></quote>, ASCII
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236 175.</para>
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237 </listitem></itemizedlist>
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238
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239 <para>As indicated above, if you want the expansion of a template
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240 to contain a literal <quote><literal>\</literal></quote>,
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241 <quote><literal>{</literal></quote>, or
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242 <quote><literal>{</literal></quote> character, you must escape
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243 it.</para>
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244
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246 <sect1 id="sec:template:filter">
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247 <title>Filtering keywords to change their results</title>
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248
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249 <para>Some of the results of template expansion are not
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250 immediately easy to use. Mercurial lets you specify an optional
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251 chain of <emphasis>filters</emphasis> to modify the result of
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252 expanding a keyword. You have already seen a common filter,
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253 <literal role="template-kw-filt-date">isodate</literal>, in
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254 action above, to make a date readable.</para>
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255
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256 <para>Below is a list of the most commonly used filters that
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257 Mercurial supports. While some filters can be applied to any
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258 text, others can only be used in specific circumstances. The
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259 name of each filter is followed first by an indication of where
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260 it can be used, then a description of its effect.</para>
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261
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262 <itemizedlist>
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263 <listitem><para><literal
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264 role="template-filter">addbreaks</literal>: Any text. Add
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265 an XHTML <quote><literal><br/></literal></quote> tag
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266 before the end of every line except the last. For example,
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267 <quote><literal>foo\nbar</literal></quote> becomes
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268 <quote><literal>foo<br/>\nbar</literal></quote>.</para>
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269 </listitem>
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270 <listitem><para><literal
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271 role="template-kw-filt-date">age</literal>: <literal
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272 role="template-keyword">date</literal> keyword. Render
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273 the age of the date, relative to the current time. Yields a
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274 string like <quote><literal>10
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275 minutes</literal></quote>.</para>
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276 </listitem>
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277 <listitem><para><literal
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278 role="template-filter">basename</literal>: Any text, but
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279 most useful for the <literal
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280 role="template-keyword">files</literal> keyword and its
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281 relatives. Treat the text as a path, and return the
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282 basename. For example,
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283 <quote><literal>foo/bar/baz</literal></quote> becomes
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284 <quote><literal>baz</literal></quote>.</para>
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285 </listitem>
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286 <listitem><para><literal
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287 role="template-kw-filt-date">date</literal>: <literal
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288 role="template-keyword">date</literal> keyword. Render a
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289 date in a similar format to the Unix <literal
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290 role="template-keyword">date</literal> command, but with
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291 timezone included. Yields a string like <quote><literal>Mon
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292 Sep 04 15:13:13 2006 -0700</literal></quote>.</para>
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293 </listitem>
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294 <listitem><para><literal
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295 role="template-kw-filt-author">domain</literal>: Any text,
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296 but most useful for the <literal
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297 role="template-keyword">author</literal> keyword. Finds
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298 the first string that looks like an email address, and
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299 extract just the domain component. For example,
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300 <quote><literal>Bryan O'Sullivan
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301 <bos@serpentine.com></literal></quote> becomes
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302 <quote><literal>serpentine.com</literal></quote>.</para>
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303 </listitem>
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305 role="template-kw-filt-author">email</literal>: Any text,
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306 but most useful for the <literal
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307 role="template-keyword">author</literal> keyword. Extract
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308 the first string that looks like an email address. For
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363 role="template-keyword">author</literal> keyword. Yield
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364 the text before an email address. For example,
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365 <quote><literal>Bryan O'Sullivan
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367 <quote><literal>Bryan O'Sullivan</literal></quote>.</para>
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371 <literal role="template-keyword">date</literal> keyword.
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372 Render a date using the same format used in email headers.
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380 </listitem>
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383 role="template-keyword">date</literal> keyword. Render
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385 <quote><literal>2006-09-04</literal></quote>.</para>
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387 <listitem><para><literal role="template-filter">strip</literal>:
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388 Any text. Strip all leading and trailing whitespace from
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390 </listitem>
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391 <listitem><para><literal
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392 role="template-filter">tabindent</literal>: Any text.
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393 Yield the text, with every line except the first starting
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394 with a tab character.</para>
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395 </listitem>
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396 <listitem><para><literal
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398 Escape all characters that are considered
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400 <literal>foo bar</literal> becomes
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401 <literal>foo%20bar</literal>.</para>
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403 <listitem><para><literal
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404 role="template-kw-filt-author">user</literal>: Any text,
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405 but most useful for the <literal
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406 role="template-keyword">author</literal> keyword. Return
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407 the <quote>user</quote> portion of an email address. For
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408 example, <quote><literal>Bryan O'Sullivan
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409 <bos@serpentine.com></literal></quote> becomes
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410 <quote><literal>bos</literal></quote>.</para>
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412
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414
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415 <note>
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416 <para> If you try to apply a filter to a piece of data that it
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417 cannot process, Mercurial will fail and print a Python
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418 exception. For example, trying to run the output of the
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419 <literal role="template-keyword">desc</literal> keyword into
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420 the <literal role="template-kw-filt-date">isodate</literal>
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421 filter is not a good idea.</para>
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422 </note>
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423
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424 <sect2>
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425 <title>Combining filters</title>
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426
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427 <para>It is easy to combine filters to yield output in the form
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428 you would like. The following chain of filters tidies up a
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429 description, then makes sure that it fits cleanly into 68
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430 columns, then indents it by a further 8 characters (at least
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431 on Unix-like systems, where a tab is conventionally 8
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432 characters wide).</para>
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433
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434 <para><!-- &interaction.template.simple.combine; --></para>
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435
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436 <para>Note the use of <quote><literal>\t</literal></quote> (a
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437 tab character) in the template to force the first line to be
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438 indented; this is necessary since <literal
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439 role="template-keyword">tabindent</literal> indents all
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440 lines <emphasis>except</emphasis> the first.</para>
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441
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442 <para>Keep in mind that the order of filters in a chain is
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444 keyword; the second to the result of the first filter; and so
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445 on. For example, using <literal>fill68|tabindent</literal>
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446 gives very different results from
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447 <literal>tabindent|fill68</literal>.</para>
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448
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450 </sect2>
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452 <sect1>
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453 <title>From templates to styles</title>
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454
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455 <para>A command line template provides a quick and simple way to
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456 format some output. Templates can become verbose, though, and
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457 it's useful to be able to give a template a name. A style file
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458 is a template with a name, stored in a file.</para>
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459
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460 <para>More than that, using a style file unlocks the power of
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461 Mercurial's templating engine in ways that are not possible
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462 using the command line <option
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463 role="hg-opt-log">--template</option> option.</para>
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464
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465 <sect2>
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466 <title>The simplest of style files</title>
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467
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468 <para>Our simple style file contains just one line:</para>
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469
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470 <para><!-- &interaction.template.simple.rev; --></para>
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471
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472 <para>This tells Mercurial, <quote>if you're printing a
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473 changeset, use the text on the right as the
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475
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477 <sect2>
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478 <title>Style file syntax</title>
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479
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480 <para>The syntax rules for a style file are simple.</para>
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482 <itemizedlist>
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483 <listitem><para>The file is processed one line at a
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485 </listitem>
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486 <listitem><para>Leading and trailing white space are
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487 ignored.</para>
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488 </listitem>
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489 <listitem><para>Empty lines are skipped.</para>
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490 </listitem>
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491 <listitem><para>If a line starts with either of the characters
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492 <quote><literal>#</literal></quote> or
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493 <quote><literal>;</literal></quote>, the entire line is
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494 treated as a comment, and skipped as if empty.</para>
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495 </listitem>
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496 <listitem><para>A line starts with a keyword. This must start
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498 subsequently contain any alphanumeric character or
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499 underscore. (In regexp notation, a keyword must match
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500 <literal>[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*</literal>.)</para>
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501 </listitem>
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502 <listitem><para>The next element must be an
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503 <quote><literal>=</literal></quote> character, which can
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504 be preceded or followed by an arbitrary amount of white
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505 space.</para>
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506 </listitem>
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507 <listitem><para>If the rest of the line starts and ends with
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508 matching quote characters (either single or double quote),
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509 it is treated as a template body.</para>
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510 </listitem>
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511 <listitem><para>If the rest of the line <emphasis>does
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512 not</emphasis> start with a quote character, it is
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513 treated as the name of a file; the contents of this file
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514 will be read and used as a template body.</para>
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515 </listitem></itemizedlist>
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516
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517 </sect2>
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518 </sect1>
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519 <sect1>
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520 <title>Style files by example</title>
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521
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522 <para>To illustrate how to write a style file, we will construct a
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523 few by example. Rather than provide a complete style file and
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524 walk through it, we'll mirror the usual process of developing a
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525 style file by starting with something very simple, and walking
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526 through a series of successively more complete examples.</para>
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527
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528 <sect2>
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529 <title>Identifying mistakes in style files</title>
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530
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531 <para>If Mercurial encounters a problem in a style file you are
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532 working on, it prints a terse error message that, once you
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533 figure out what it means, is actually quite useful.</para>
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534
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535 <!-- &interaction.template.svnstyle.syntax.input; -->
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536
|
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537 <para>Notice that <filename>broken.style</filename> attempts to
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538 define a <literal>changeset</literal> keyword, but forgets to
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539 give any content for it. When instructed to use this style
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540 file, Mercurial promptly complains.</para>
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541
|
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542 <para><!-- &interaction.template.svnstyle.syntax.error;
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543 --></para>
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544
|
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545 <para>This error message looks intimidating, but it is not too
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546 hard to follow.</para>
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547
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548 <itemizedlist>
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549 <listitem><para>The first component is simply Mercurial's way
|
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550 of saying <quote>I am giving up</quote>.</para>
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551 <programlisting>___abort___: broken.style:1: parse
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552 error</programlisting>
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553 </listitem>
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554 <listitem><para>Next comes the name of the style file that
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555 contains the error.</para>
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556 <programlisting>
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557 abort: ___broken.style___:1: parse error
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558 </programlisting>
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559 </listitem>
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560 <listitem><para>Following the file name is the line number
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561 where the error was encountered.</para>
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562 <programlisting>abort: broken.style:___1___: parse
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563 error</programlisting>
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564 </listitem>
|
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565 <listitem><para>Finally, a description of what went
|
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566 wrong.</para>
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567 <programlisting>abort: broken.style:1: ___parse
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568 error___</programlisting>
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569 </listitem>
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570 <listitem><para>The description of the problem is not always
|
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571 clear (as in this case), but even when it is cryptic, it
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572 is almost always trivial to visually inspect the offending
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573 line in the style file and see what is wrong.</para>
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574 </listitem></itemizedlist>
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575
|
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576 </sect2>
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577 <sect2>
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578 <title>Uniquely identifying a repository</title>
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579
|
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580 <para>If you would like to be able to identify a Mercurial
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581 repository <quote>fairly uniquely</quote> using a short string
|
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582 as an identifier, you can use the first revision in the
|
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583 repository. <!-- &interaction.template.svnstyle.id; --> This
|
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584 is not guaranteed to be unique, but it is nevertheless useful
|
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585 in many cases.</para>
|
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586 <itemizedlist>
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587 <listitem><para>It will not work in a completely empty
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588 repository, because such a repository does not have a
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589 revision zero.</para>
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590 </listitem>
|
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591 <listitem><para>Neither will it work in the (extremely rare)
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592 case where a repository is a merge of two or more formerly
|
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593 independent repositories, and you still have those
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594 repositories around.</para>
|
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595 </listitem></itemizedlist>
|
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596 <para>Here are some uses to which you could put this
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597 identifier:</para>
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598 <itemizedlist>
|
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599 <listitem><para>As a key into a table for a database that
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600 manages repositories on a server.</para>
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601 </listitem>
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602 <listitem><para>As half of a {<emphasis>repository
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603 ID</emphasis>, <emphasis>revision ID</emphasis>} tuple.
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604 Save this information away when you run an automated build
|
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605 or other activity, so that you can <quote>replay</quote>
|
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606 the build later if necessary.</para>
|
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607 </listitem></itemizedlist>
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608
|
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609 </sect2>
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610 <sect2>
|
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611 <title>Mimicking Subversion's output</title>
|
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612
|
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613 <para>Let's try to emulate the default output format used by
|
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614 another revision control tool, Subversion. <!--
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615 &interaction.template.svnstyle.short; --></para>
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