Branch names

[Augie Fackler]

On Mar 7, 2011, at 4:15 PM, Colin Barrett wrote:
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> On Mar 7, 2011, at 10:40 AM, Zachary West wrote:
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>> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 13:00, Colin Barrett <colin at springsandstruts.com> wrote:
>>> On Mar 7, 2011, at 1:41 AM, Peter Hosey wrote:
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>>>> On Mar 6, 2011, at 17:12:00, commits at adium.im wrote:
>>>>> details:     http://hg.adium.im/adium-1.4/rev/f46d14768090
>>>>> revision:    3382:f46d14768090
>>>>> author:              Colin Barrett <colin at springsandstruts.com>
>>>>> date:                Sun Mar 06 17:09:40 2011 -0800
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>>>> If possible, it would be good if commit emails included the branch name. Ideally, only when it isn't default, but unconditionally would be OK, too.
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>>> Does anyone know how these emails are sent? I checked the hgrcs for the both adium and adium-1.4 (on eider) and I only saw the buildbot hook.
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>>> -Colin
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>> Look up a level at the hg user's ~/.hgrc -- all the multi-repo stuff goes there.
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> Done.
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> New emails on default should have "branch: (none)"; emails on branches will have "branch: branchname". It's not ideal, but {branches} returns an empty string for csets on default, and the only filter to deal w/ that is `nonempty`, which turns empty string into (none).

Use the {branch} keyword instead. Might be 1.8-only, but that'll DTRT for ya.

For the curious: {branches} is a now-deprecated (as of 1.8) artifact of an older implementation of named branches that didn't pan out.

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> -Colin
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