log: document the characters ---graph uses to draw stable
authorMatt DeVore <matvore@google.com>
Tue, 18 Apr 2017 14:51:32 -0700
branchstable
changeset 32075 7000196a8178
parent 32074 769c831708c7
child 32076 d7b698ae153b
log: document the characters ---graph uses to draw The meaning of : vs | was undocumented and non-obvious.
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     'o' is a changeset, '@' is a working directory parent, 'x' is obsolete,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::