mercurial/node.py

color: document that labels are used for colorizing text

It is a deeply hidden secret that it's possible to colorise so many
things with so many different labels. This is an attempt to document
this. The text is a bit long, but it seems as short as can be while
documenting everything. Perhaps it should be hidden under a --verbose
option.

# node.py - basic nodeid manipulation for mercurial
#
# Copyright 2005, 2006 Matt Mackall <[e-mail]>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

import binascii

nullrev = -1
nullid = "\0" * 20

# This ugly style has a noticeable effect in manifest parsing
hex = binascii.hexlify
bin = binascii.unhexlify

def short(node):
    return hex(node[:6])