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mpen
mpen

Reputation: 282825

Parsable Hg log format

I'm trying to parse the output of hg log. So far I'm just doing something simple:

$arg_sep = '|||';
$entry_sep = ';;;';
$log = shell_exec("hg log -l 5  --template \"{rev}$arg_sep{node}$arg_sep{author}$arg_sep{date|hgdate}$arg_sep{parents}$arg_sep{files}$arg_sep{desc}$entry_sep\"");

And then exploding it. I anticipate a problem with the files though. They seem to be space-separated. What if the file actually contains a space, how am I supposed to parse that?

Can I get the log in a more parsable format? JSON would be nice, but I can't seem to find anythign on that.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 386

Answers (2)

jakob
jakob

Reputation: 227

Check out http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hg.1.html#template-usage

You could try

hg log -l 5  --style xml

and then try to parse the resulting xml.

Upvotes: 1

Ry4an Brase
Ry4an Brase

Reputation: 78330

Try this one:

hg log --verbose --style=xml

It's not quite JSON, but it is concretely parse-able and there are easy command line tools for extracting XML values.

Upvotes: 3

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