template: add revset() template function Adds a template function that executes a revset and returns the list of revisions as the result. It has the signature 'revset(query [, args...])'. The args are optional and are applied to the query string using the standard python string.format(args) pattern. This allows things like: '{revset("parents({0})", rev)}' to produce the parents of each individual commit in the log output. If no args are specified, the revset result is cached for the duration of the templater; so it's better to not use args if performance is a concern. By itself, revset() can be used to print commit parents, print the common ancestor of a commit with the main branch, etc. It can be used with the ifcontains() function to do things like '{ifcontains(rev, revset('.'), label(...), ...)}' to color the working copy parent, to color certain branches, to color draft commits, etc.

  $ hg init

  $ echo 123 > a
  $ hg add a
  $ hg commit -m "first" a

  $ mkdir sub
  $ echo 321 > sub/b
  $ hg add sub/b
  $ hg commit -m "second" sub/b

  $ cat sub/b
  321

  $ hg co 0
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ cat sub/b 2>/dev/null || echo "sub/b not present"
  sub/b not present

  $ test -d sub || echo "sub not present"
  sub not present