Offering hg log -G by default?

[Pierre-Yves David]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 06:00:12PM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I’m currently doing some revising of the guide on mercurial.selenic.com, and
> since I want to use only core commands, I experienced quite painfully how
> useful the graphlog-extension is to visualize changes. 
> 
> Would it be possible to make the -G flag to hg log part of core? This should
> not have any negative effect on the user-interface, but it would enable users
> of an unconfigured Mercurial to get topology information on their history.
> And that’s something I consider a core-feature with branchy history (the
> default for people who do not use extensions). 

Yes it is. It have been agreed during at least Two sprint I can remember.

> Is there a specific reason for not having that already?

glog is a mess and nobody took time to clean it up.

I spent some time cleaning the hgview graph build I may help you doing this in
january.


-- 
Pierre-Yves David

http://www.logilab.fr/

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