[issue1157] Commit identifiers should be printed in a selection-friendly way

[Carl Worth]

New submission from Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org>:

The first time I ever tried to use a commit identifier seen from "hg log"
output failed as follows:

    $ hg strip 15143:e27285f68d8d
    abort: unknown revision '15143:e27285f68d8d'!

I had no idea that 15143 and e27285f68d8d were aliases for the same
commit and that only one of them should be used. Also, this mistake
was easy to make because simply double-clicking on either one in
my terminal (and I imagine most all terminals) selects both as well
as the separating colon.

It would be much more friendly if these commit identifiers would be
printed in such a way that they could be selected by double clicking.
This could be accomplished by simply replacing the colon with a space
or by splitting the changeset field into two fields. That is, something
like replacing:

    changeset:          15143:e27285f68d8d

with something like:

    revision number:    15143
    commit identifier:  e27285f68d8d

or whatever the appropriate terminology would be for mercurial.

-Carl

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title: Commit identifiers should be printed in a selection-friendly way

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