How do I get the mercurial color extension to work when a style (including the default) is specified on the command line or in ~/.hgrc?
My ~/.hgrc looks like
[extensions]
color=
[color]
log.changeset=yellow
When I do hg log the changeset lines are highlighted in yellow, as expected, e.g.
changeset: 399:c42d2627824f <----- THIS LINE IS IN YELLOW :-)
user: A User <user@example.com>
date: Tue Jun 21 11:07:17 2011 +0200
summary: add code to rm -rf /
However, if I do hg log --style=default, the output is identical but the changeset lines are no longer highlighted.
You may say, “well, don’t specify --style=default!”
Unfortunately this is a problem because my goal is to tweak the default template. I made a copy of the template, called it map-cmdline.default2 and whether I do hg log --style=default2 or add style=default2 to my ~/.hgrc, the color highlighting is disabled.
You’ve discovered that Mercurial “cheats”:
hg logdoes not use the template system, the output is hard-coded. The--styleflag triggers the slower (but customizable) template engine.Changing this would probably be difficult, but I agree with Oben that you should open an issue about this.