Miscellaneous jar improvements

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/9/10 Martin Buchholz <martinrb at google.com>:
> It was bugging me that hg log only shows the first line of the description,
> when the full description is usually what you want.
> Anyways, I just added the hg alias below in my .hgrc,
> and seems to make me happier.
>
> [alias]
> logv = log --template='changeset:
> {rev}:{node|short}\n{branches}{tags}{parents}user:
> {author}\ndate:        {date|date}\n{desc}\n\n'
>

Thanks Martin.  That produces some nice output.  I moved the \n from
before {branches} to after {parents} and add spaces between each of
branches, tags and parents, so that you get:

changeset:5:a16ad9963666  jdk6-b02
user:ohair

rather than

changeset:5:a16ad9963666
jdk6-b02user:ohair

> Martin
>
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:39, Andrew Haley<aph at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>> 2009/9/10 Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com>:
>>>> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>>>> 2009/9/10 Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com>:
>>>>>> Martin Buchholz wrote:
>>>>>>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:57, Andrew Haley<aph at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Martin Buchholz wrote:
>>>>>>>>> changeset:   1283:ff32c270102a
>>>>>>>>> user:        martin
>>>>>>>>> date:        Mon Jun 22 21:07:20 2009 -0700
>>>>>>>>> summary:     6853806: Prefer (cd $dir && jar) to jar -C for performance reasons
>>>>>> Weird, I can't find that changeset.  Got a URL?
>>>>>>
>>>>> changeset:   1341:ff32c270102a
>>>>> user:        martin
>>>>> date:        Mon Jun 22 21:07:20 2009 -0700
>>>>> summary:     6853806: Prefer (cd $dir && jar) to jar -C for performance reasons
>>>>>
>>>>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/jdk/rev/ff32c270102a
>>>> Ta; no idea why i couldn't find it.
>>>>
>>>>> Oh the benefits of a useful summary...
>>>>
>>>> He.  That's not a summary, it's (almost) the entire comment!
>>>
>>> Ha, yeah.  The bugID per changeset thing does come in useful though
>>> when you need to do this kind of lookup as you can just search the
>>> output of hg log for the bug ID.
>>
>> I don't get it.  How does a summary line help searching?  You could just as
>> easily, and more reliably, search the full log for the bug ID.
>>
>> Andrew.
>>
>



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