Getting a human readable revision Id via the python api

[Stefano Franz]

Thanks, that worked perfectly!

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 18:18 +0100, Stefano Franz wrote:
>> I've written a pretxnchangegroup hook which is used to check that JIRA
>> tickets are mentioned in the commit messages, and that these are in
>> the correct state to allow commits the the Stable Branch.
>>
>>
>> Long story, there is a requirement that on commit, the ticket is
>> updated to include a reference to the changeset that was the tip of
>> the push. I can't seem to extract a human readable version of this, as
>>
>> commit_coordinate = str(repo['tip'].node())
>>
>> sets commit_coordinate to a garbled binary string. Am I missing
>> something simple? Or is it the functionality thats missing?
>
> With contrib/debugshell.py:
>
> $ hg dbsh
> loaded repo : /home/mpm
> using source: /home/mpm/hg/mercurial
>>>> repo['tip'].node()
> '\xd2\x0e\x0f\xee\xba\xf1\xb7\xc6/Y\xd5\r\xbb\x95\x0c\xf8Gi>\xa7'
>>>> repo['tip'].hex()
> 'd20e0feebaf1b7c62f59d50dbb950cf847693ea7'
>>>> str(repo['tip'])
> 'd20e0feebaf1'
>>>>
>
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