log: display closing-branch nodes as "_" (BC) In plain `hg log` there is no indication that a commit closes a branch. You can use hg log --debug, but this is too verbose. A simple idea copied from thg and other graphical viewers is to display the node for a closing-branch commit as a horizontal line. I think this technically is a BC if we consider the graphlog to be part of the stdout API, but I really can't imagine who the hell is parsing the graphlog to determine information about commits.

basic test for hg debugrebuildstate

  $ hg init repo
  $ cd repo

  $ touch foo bar
  $ hg ci -Am 'add foo bar'
  adding bar
  adding foo

  $ touch baz
  $ hg add baz
  $ hg rm bar

  $ hg debugrebuildstate

state dump after

  $ hg debugstate --nodates | sort
  n 644         -1 set                 bar
  n 644         -1 set                 foo

status

  $ hg st -A
  ! bar
  ? baz
  C foo

  $ cd ..