help: deprecate ui.slash in favor of slashpath template filter (
issue5572)
> For some reason, I thought someone (Mads?) said we had basically given
> up on ui.slash, and some commands didn't support it.
(from https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5572#c1)
So the ui.slash option doesn't always work and is somewhat confusing. Let's
make it clearer we won't improve the situation.
--- a/mercurial/help/config.txt Sat Oct 21 17:19:02 2017 +0900
+++ b/mercurial/help/config.txt Sat Oct 21 17:27:14 2017 +0900
@@ -2184,6 +2184,8 @@
(default: True)
``slash``
+ (Deprecated. Use ``slashpath`` template filter instead.)
+
Display paths using a slash (``/``) as the path separator. This
only makes a difference on systems where the default path
separator is not the slash character (e.g. Windows uses the