# HG changeset patch
# User Matt DeVore <matvore@google.com>
# Date 1492552292 25200
# Node ID 7000196a8178202540e2b283dd8ee79b4aaa4d48
# Parent  769c831708c7acc5100a932922c7dba518454067
log: document the characters ---graph uses to draw

The meaning of : vs | was undocumented and non-obvious.

diff -r 769c831708c7 -r 7000196a8178 mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py	Tue Apr 25 00:19:03 2017 -0700
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Tue Apr 18 14:51:32 2017 -0700
@@ -3334,6 +3334,8 @@
     'o' is a changeset, '@' is a working directory parent, 'x' is obsolete,
     and '+' represents a fork where the changeset from the lines below is a
     parent of the 'o' merge on the same line.
+    Paths in the DAG are represented with '|', '/' and so forth. ':' in place
+    of a '|' indicates one or more revisions in a path are omitted.
 
     .. note::