[PATCH 3 of 4] subrepo: add revdetails() method

[Angel Ezquerra]

On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Angel Ezquerra
<angel.ezquerra at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 1:38 AM, Pierre-Yves David
> <pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 05/07/2014 03:54 PM, Angel Ezquerra wrote:
>>>
>>> # HG changeset patch
>>> # User Angel Ezquerra <angel.ezquerra at gmail.com>
>>> # Date 1399414642 -7200
>>> #      Wed May 07 00:17:22 2014 +0200
>>> # Node ID 874013facd42bd2a8bbd07634cad02448709c5ac
>>> # Parent  c1035596456a23347b3cfb510bf7c62a68166b90
>>> subrepo: add revdetails() method
>>>
>>> This method is able to show the "revision details" for a given revision.
>>> Currently for mercurial subrepos it returns a string which resembles a lot
>>> what
>>> the default template writes to the console when doing hg log. For all
>>> other
>>> types of subrepos we just return the revision id as a string.
>>>
>>> We could not use the templater to get this info because the templater
>>> writes to
>>> the console (i.e. it does not return a string that we can use).
>>
>>
>> Could we not fix the templater instead?
>
> I'll look into that, thanks.
>
> Angel

It turns out it was really easy to do. The ui class has a pushbuffer
and a popbuffer methods which let you buffer what is written to them
and read it later.

I'll send V2 of this series in a minute.

Cheers,

Angel