[patch] limit log to a single branch

[Stuart W. Marks]

Dustin Sallings wrote:
> On Feb 8, 2008, at 20:36, Stuart W. Marks wrote:
>> Yes, perhaps something like "svn log --stop-on-copy"? (For those of us 
>> reformed svn users.)
>>
>> For those of you who haven't had the misfortune of using svn, a "copy" 
>> operation creates a new branch in the repository. It's useful for 
>> viewing what changes have been made on this branch. For hg, maybe 
>> --stop-at-branch or some such would be a good name. This would 
>> additionally imply --follow.
> 
> 
>     The thing I implemented is closer to what people keep bugging me to 
> have around the office to do...just show the changelogs for a single 
> branch.  It looks like this:
> 
>     hg log -b stable
> 
>     And we can see just the things that have been added to our stable 
> branch.

Nice. I tried it out and it actually seems more useful than the --stop-on-copy 
thing I was proposing. Bryan's suggestion to rename it to --only-branch (as you 
implemented in your patch posted subsequently) is good too.

Thanks!

s'marks