Why no "hg id --template..." ?

[Matt Mackall]

On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 15:11 +0100, Marcin Kasperski wrote:
> I'd like to grab some information about working directory (revision,
> last change date etc). And just spotted, that while "hg tip" is able
> to provide everything, "hg id" is limited to just numeric revision id,
> branches and tags. 
> 
> I know that I can write 
>    hg log -r `hg id -n`

hg log -r .

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