[PATCH 0 of 3] Highlighting for log & graphlog

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 21:45 +0200, Benoit Boissinot wrote:
> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 17:11 +0200, Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen
> > wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> This series adds support for highlighting a set of changesets in the
> >> log & graphlog command. It's done in the third patch.
> >>
> >> The first patch fixes a bug triggered in the third patch, and the
> >> second patch makes the parent changesets coloured just like the
> >> current changeset. It's not necessary, strictly speaking, but nice
> >> IMHO.
> >
> > People who think this feature is useful/good should explain why. I'm a
> > little skeptical.
> 
> It is nice for example with "outgoing()", I can easily see how the
> outgoing csets fit into the whole graph.

It's kind of problematic to me that on a stock install (ie color not
enabled), -H is a no-op. If we do something like this, it should a) have
a meaningful non-color effect and b) have an appropriate non-color name.
See <em> vs <i> in HTML for comparison.

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