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Asked: 2026-05-16T14:22:12+00:00

What’s the simplest way to have hg … –template ‘{branches}’ return default instead of

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What’s the simplest way to have hg ... --template '{branches}' return default instead of an empty string when the changeset being printed is part of the default branch?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’ve not found an in-template way to do that. If I’m in a shellscript I do something like:

    BRANCH=$(hg log --revision 0 --template '{branches}')
echo ${BRANCH:=default}

    Though if you have the excellent hg prompt extension in place you could do:

    hg prompt '{branch}'
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