hg qseries vs. stg series

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Fri Feb 3 13:31:42 CST 2012


On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 22:03 +0300, Stepan Koltsov wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 22:38, Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan at ochtman.nl> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 17:51, Stepan Koltsov <yozh at mx1.ru> wrote:
> >> So. I'd like to patch hg qseries to match stg series output. What do you think?
> >
> > Maybe you should make qseries templatable, if it isn't already. Then
> > you could define some alias so that it uses the nice template you've
> > come up with.
> 
> I think templatable qseries is overcomplication. Most people want
> convenience out of box and they are too lazy or too busy to configure
> anything. For example, two thirds of my coworkers use default shell
> prompt in default shell and no shell aliases.

The plan is for all commands to eventually support templating/JSON/XML
with a generic output framework, so some day you'll get this capability
for free.

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