usability of mercurial

Thomas Arendsen Hein thomas at intevation.de
Tue Aug 30 23:43:04 CDT 2005


* Jordan Breeding <jordan.breeding at mac.com> [20050830 21:51]:
> On Tuesday, August 30, 2005, at 02:24PM, Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com> wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 14:07 -0500, Jordan Breeding wrote:
> >>  - Based on the above taking place at some point I think that it would
> >> be nive if `hg log -v` could list "Added Files:", "Removed Files:",
> >> "Renamed Files:", and "Modified Files:" whenever each type of
> >> operation is present in that changeset.
> >
> >That information is not recorded, so it's somewhat expensive to figure
> >out, particularly for deleted files (they just disappear from the
> >manifest).
> 
> Would it be possible to record this information in the future?

hg log --debug already shows added/removed/deleted files, but as
Bryan said, it is quite slow for showing many revisions of a large
repository. If you just want to show 100 changesets, that's no
problem.

IIRC Matt talked on IRC about recording this information, but this
is not decided yet.

Thomas

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