Keyword Expansion extension
This extension is not being distributed along with Mercurial.
It's being developed by Christian Ebert and can be downloaded from its [http://www.blacktrash.org/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/hgkeyword/ keyword expansion repository].
Overview
This extension allows the expansion of RCS/CVS-like and user defined keys in Mercurial repositories.
Configuration
To enable this extension add it to the '[extensions]' stanza in the hgrc file:
[extensions] hgext.keyword= #or, if keyword.py is in not the hgext folder: #keyword=/path/to/keyword.py
Additional configuration is dones in they [keyword] and [keywordmaps] sections in your configuration file:
# filename patterns for expansion are configured in this section
# files matching patterns with value 'ignore' are ignored
[keyword]
**.py =
x* = ignore
...
# in case you prefer your own keyword maps over the cvs-like defaults:
# using {{{key-to-be-expanded = valuelines, where values are taken from the avaliable Mercurial template names.[keywordmaps] HGdate = {date|rfc822date} lastlog = {desc} ## same as {desc|firstline} in this context checked in by = {author} }}}
Usage
The defined keys (or default ones) are automatically expanded, without user interaction.