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diff mercurial/help/config.txt @ 30704:0499da0d5a06
config: add docs for ignoring all text below in the editor
This is an example of how to use the new skip-from-there string for ignoring the
diff in a commit message.
author | Sean Farley <sean@farley.io> |
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date | Wed, 04 Jan 2017 22:32:42 -0600 |
parents | 494d5cec0b07 |
children | 35b516f800e0 |
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--- a/mercurial/help/config.txt Sat Dec 31 15:36:36 2016 -0600 +++ b/mercurial/help/config.txt Wed Jan 04 22:32:42 2017 -0600 @@ -418,6 +418,28 @@ "HG: removed {file}\n" }{if(files, "", "HG: no files changed\n")} +``diff()`` + String: show the diff (see :hg:`help templates` for detail) + +Sometimes it is helpful to show the diff of the changeset in the editor without +having to prefix 'HG: ' to each line so that highlighting works correctly. For +this, Mercurial provides a special string which will ignore everything below +it:: + + HG: ------------------------ >8 ------------------------ + +For example, the template configuration below will show the diff below the +extra message:: + + [committemplate] + changeset = {desc}\n\n + HG: Enter commit message. Lines beginning with 'HG:' are removed. + HG: {extramsg} + HG: ------------------------ >8 ------------------------ + HG: Do not touch the line above. + HG: Everything below will be removed. + {diff()} + .. note:: For some problematic encodings (see :hg:`help win32mbcs` for