Use the pager given by the environment to display long output
Unix systems usually have a PAGER environment variable set.
If it is set, mercurial will use the pager application to display
output.
Two configuration variables are available to influence the behaviour of the
pager. ui.pager sets the pager application. The pager is
only used if ui.usepager is true. By default ui.usepager is disabled.
#!/bin/sh
hg init
mkdir alpha
touch alpha/one
mkdir beta
touch beta/two
hg add alpha/one beta/two
hg ci -m "start" -d "1000000 0"
echo 1 > alpha/one
echo 2 > beta/two
echo EVERYTHING
hg diff --nodates
echo BETA ONLY
hg diff --nodates beta
echo INSIDE BETA
cd beta
hg diff --nodates .