view mercurial/help/common.txt @ 26482:d2e69584e330

templatekw: allow getlatesttags() to match a specific tag pattern

This will allow the latest class of tag to be found, such as a release candidate
or final build, instead of just the absolute latest.  It will be exposed in a
future patch.

It's unfortunate that the original 'latesttags' cache can't be used to determine
the proper values, but it isn't fully populated for the entire repo.  For
example, the {latesttagdistance} keyword on the Mecurial repo builds the cache
up back to the revision for 1.4.  If the pattern was 're:^0\.\d$', that wouldn't
be in the cache.  Maybe this can be optimized some other way, but for now, this
is the simpliest implementation.

.. Common link and substitution definitions.

.. |hg(1)| replace:: **hg**\ (1)
.. _hg(1): hg.1.html
.. |hgrc(5)| replace:: **hgrc**\ (5)
.. _hgrc(5): hgrc.5.html
.. |hgignore(5)| replace:: **hgignore**\ (5)
.. _hgignore(5): hgignore.5.html