test-obsolete: use 'log -T {node}' instead of 'id --debug -i' to lookup hash
I ran into a case when adding a test where there were cryptic hg command line
errors. I eventually traced it back to 'hg id' printing debug messages before
the hash:
invalid branchheads cache (served): tip differs <hash>
This method should eliminate any other output except the node.
hg debuginstall
$ hg debuginstall
checking encoding (ascii)...
checking Python executable (*) (glob)
checking Python version (2.*) (glob)
checking Python lib (*lib*)... (glob)
checking installed modules (*mercurial)... (glob)
checking templates (*mercurial?templates)... (glob)
checking commit editor...
checking username...
no problems detected
hg debuginstall with no username
$ HGUSER= hg debuginstall
checking encoding (ascii)...
checking Python executable (*) (glob)
checking Python version (2.*) (glob)
checking Python lib (*lib*)... (glob)
checking installed modules (*mercurial)... (glob)
checking templates (*mercurial?templates)... (glob)
checking commit editor...
checking username...
no username supplied
(specify a username in your configuration file)
1 problems detected, please check your install!
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