Re: vc-next-action RCS vs hg: copies the entry of ChangeLog

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 10/18/2015 11:25 AM, Uwe Brauer wrote:

> But the change log contains
> 2015-10-18  Uwe Brauer  <address@hidden>
>
>         * section-0002.tex (subsection{Weight._Sobol._fract._order_their}
>         {} {}):
>         test
>
> Which is *not* displayed.
>
> It is displayed if the file is under RCS!

Turns out, the problem is that vc-hg-print-log doesn't display multiline 
messages, just the first line.

Mercurial is weird.

The easiest way to display them is to pass -v to 'hg log'. However, that 
will also display the list of files touched by the commit, which can be 
long, and it's pretty annoying.

To avoid that, https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688 suggests 
using the --template argument, to indicate exactly what to output.

If someone were to look into it and tell us what template format 
corresponds to "current output plus long commit message", that would be 
helpful. Preferably, both for "short" and "long" types of output (see 
vc-hg-print-log).