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.

   > 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.

   > 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).


Hi it seems that

hg log --template "commit {node}\nAuthor : {author}\nDate: 
{date|rfc822date}\n\n{desc}\n\n{nofiles}\n" 

Does more or less what
 git log does