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Asked: 2026-05-12T20:04:09+00:00

hg log works. hg log –style does not work. C:\temp\myhg> c:\program files\mercurial\hg log changeset:

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hg log works.
hg log –style does not work. 

C:\temp\myhg>"c:\program files\mercurial\hg" log

changeset:   0:9c62e300d833
user:        Administrator@biostar
date:        Wed Oct 21 04:57:41 2009 -0500
summary:     124 my first commit

C:\temp\myhg>"c:\program files\mercurial\hg" log --style paper
abort: Permission denied: c:\program files\mercurial\templates\paper

As long as you’re reading, here’s the big picture: I want to get log format in an easy-to-parse format. If I use a –template {files} with the the log command, and if there are spaces in the filenames, the output isn’t friendly to parsing. So, according to the docs, I need to use a “style”. But, I can’t even get as far as using the styles that install with Mercurial.

I did a vanilla install of Mercurial on Windows XP and have been able to run the init, add, commit, and log commands with no problems.

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  1. Editorial Team

    AFAIK, html template sets like ‘paper’ are designed for being used from hgweb. I don’t know how to use them from command line.

    What you can do: write a style that would be easy to parse.

    To use a style you need to have a file named map-cmdline.<style> in templates subdirectory of your Hg installation. Here is the sample of creating template for custom log report. Here is a chapter on styles from HgBook.

    Hope this will help you.

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