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+Mercurial allows you to customize output of commands through
+templates. You can either pass in a template from the command
+line, via the --template option, or select an existing
+template-style (--style).
+
+You can customize output for any "log-like" command: log,
+outgoing, incoming, tip, parents, heads and glog.
+
+Three styles are packaged with Mercurial: default (the style used
+when no explicit preference is passed), compact and changelog.
+Usage::
+
+ $ hg log -r1 --style changelog
+
+A template is a piece of text, with markup to invoke variable
+expansion::
+
+ $ hg log -r1 --template "{node}\n"
+ b56ce7b07c52de7d5fd79fb89701ea538af65746
+
+Strings in curly braces are called keywords. The availability of
+keywords depends on the exact context of the templater. These
+keywords are usually available for templating a log-like command:
+
+:author: String. The unmodified author of the changeset.
+:branches: String. The name of the branch on which the changeset
+ was committed. Will be empty if the branch name was
+ default.
+:date: Date information. The date when the changeset was
+ committed.
+:desc: String. The text of the changeset description.
+:diffstat: String. Statistics of changes with the following
+ format: "modified files: +added/-removed lines"
+:files: List of strings. All files modified, added, or removed
+ by this changeset.
+:file_adds: List of strings. Files added by this changeset.
+:file_mods: List of strings. Files modified by this changeset.
+:file_dels: List of strings. Files removed by this changeset.
+:node: String. The changeset identification hash, as a
+ 40-character hexadecimal string.
+:parents: List of strings. The parents of the changeset.
+:rev: Integer. The repository-local changeset revision
+ number.
+:tags: List of strings. Any tags associated with the
+ changeset.
+:latesttag: String. Most recent global tag in the ancestors of this
+ changeset.
+:latesttagdistance: Integer. Longest path to the latest tag.
+
+The "date" keyword does not produce human-readable output. If you
+want to use a date in your output, you can use a filter to process
+it. Filters are functions which return a string based on the input
+variable. You can also use a chain of filters to get the desired
+output::
+
+ $ hg tip --template "{date|isodate}\n"
+ 2008-08-21 18:22 +0000
+
+List of filters:
+
+:addbreaks: Any text. Add an XHTML "<br />" tag before the end of
+ every line except the last.
+:age: Date. Returns a human-readable date/time difference
+ between the given date/time and the current
+ date/time.
+:basename: Any text. Treats the text as a path, and returns the
+ last component of the path after splitting by the
+ path separator (ignoring trailing separators). For
+ example, "foo/bar/baz" becomes "baz" and "foo/bar//"
+ becomes "bar".
+:stripdir: Treat the text as path and strip a directory level,
+ if possible. For example, "foo" and "foo/bar" becomes
+ "foo".
+:date: Date. Returns a date in a Unix date format, including
+ the timezone: "Mon Sep 04 15:13:13 2006 0700".
+:domain: Any text. Finds the first string that looks like an
+ email address, and extracts just the domain
+ component. Example: ``User <user@example.com>`` becomes
+ ``example.com``.
+:email: Any text. Extracts the first string that looks like
+ an email address. Example: ``User <user@example.com>``
+ becomes ``user@example.com``.
+:escape: Any text. Replaces the special XML/XHTML characters
+ "&", "<" and ">" with XML entities.
+:fill68: Any text. Wraps the text to fit in 68 columns.
+:fill76: Any text. Wraps the text to fit in 76 columns.
+:firstline: Any text. Returns the first line of text.
+:nonempty: Any text. Returns '(none)' if the string is empty.
+:hgdate: Date. Returns the date as a pair of numbers:
+ "1157407993 25200" (Unix timestamp, timezone offset).
+:isodate: Date. Returns the date in ISO 8601 format:
+ "2009-08-18 13:00 +0200".
+:isodatesec: Date. Returns the date in ISO 8601 format, including
+ seconds: "2009-08-18 13:00:13 +0200". See also the
+ rfc3339date filter.
+:localdate: Date. Converts a date to local date.
+:obfuscate: Any text. Returns the input text rendered as a
+ sequence of XML entities.
+:person: Any text. Returns the text before an email address.
+:rfc822date: Date. Returns a date using the same format used in
+ email headers: "Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:00:13 +0200".
+:rfc3339date: Date. Returns a date using the Internet date format
+ specified in RFC 3339: "2009-08-18T13:00:13+02:00".
+:short: Changeset hash. Returns the short form of a changeset
+ hash, i.e. a 12-byte hexadecimal string.
+:shortdate: Date. Returns a date like "2006-09-18".
+:strip: Any text. Strips all leading and trailing whitespace.
+:tabindent: Any text. Returns the text, with every line except
+ the first starting with a tab character.
+:urlescape: Any text. Escapes all "special" characters. For
+ example, "foo bar" becomes "foo%20bar".
+:user: Any text. Returns the user portion of an email
+ address.