[there is hg log -L] (was: [vc-region-history in HG])

[Uwe Brauer]

>>> "DM" == Daniel Martín <mardani29@yahoo.es> writes:

> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>> 
>> I just realized that vc-region-history does not work in hg, in the sense
>> that it just shows the changes in the whole buffer, while it works for
>> git. I looked briefly at the code and could not find any special calls
>> to git there.
>> 
>> Any idea what could be the reason (not that there are very many HG users
>> on this list...)?

> In a git repository, the function delegates to the backend function
> vc-git-region-history, which calls "git log -L" (requires git 1.8.4+).

> If this cheatsheet is accurate,
> https://hyperpolyglot.org/version-control, there is no direct Mercurial
> alternative to git log -L ("commits which touched lines").


I just learned, that at least for mercurial version => 5.2

 hg help log --verbose 

Tells me


-L --line-range FILE,RANGE [+] follow line range of specified file
                                (EXPERIMENTAL)

So it should work, shouldn't it?

Regards




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