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

[Uwe Brauer]

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

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

   > Mercurial is weird.

Right I just found out that git behaves differently and behaves as
expected. Sigh  I just made my up my mind to switch from RCS to hg...

   > 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.

Ok that seems to do it, but is seems to me that from the command line
git log

Has the nicer output than 

 hg log -v

Shrug that cannot be helped.

   > 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).


I am very interested in this and will look it up