hgview (qt4 and text based Mercurial log navigator)

Ludovic Aubry — 2013-03-08T13:02-01:00

hgview: A fast Mercurial log navigator

hgview is a simple tool aiming at visually navigate in a Mercurial repository history.

It is written in Python with quick and efficient key-based navigation in mind, trying to be fast enough to be usable for big repositories.

Features

easy key-based navigation in revisions's history of a repo (with browsing history) [qt4, text],
good support for mq patch queues [qt4, text],
automatically refresh the displayed revision graph when the repository is being modified (commit, pull, updates, etc.) [qt4, text]
display current working directory as a special node in the graph (when there are local modifications) [qt4, text],
view a graphical side-by-side diff for a given file, allowing to easily compare any couple of revisions for a file [qt4]
view the revision graph for a file (filelog) [qt4],
navigate in the manifest at any chosen revision (without modifying the working directory) [qt4],
basic support for the bfiles extension [qt4, text],
search in the whole history (search in diff contents and commit messages) [qt4],
directly go to a given revision (can be any understood revision format; rev number, ID, tag, brnch name, etc.) [qt4, text]

Installation on Debian/Ubuntu

Debian and Ubuntu user can get the latest stable version using the logilab's debian repository. Note that a hgview package is available in Debian testing repositories.

Installation on Windows

Use the window installer for hgview-1.7.0

Installation from source

You may also retrieve the lastest version of the code using Mercurial, typing:

hg clone http://hg.logilab.org/hgview

To test it, just go in the hgview directory and type:

./bin/hgview

or run the command, also from the hgview directory:

hg --config extensions.hgext.hgview=hgext/hgview.py qv

If you like it, just add in the [extensions] section of your ~/.hgrc:

[extensions]
hgext.hgview=/path/to/hgview/hgext/hgview.py

You can choose your prefered interface in the [hgview] section:

[hgview]
interface = qt # or raw or curses

Dependencies

hgview depends on several third-party python packages:

python 2.5
Mercurial 1.6

For the qt4 based interface:

pyqt4 with qscintilla
PyQt4 dev tools are also required to run it from sources, which may require the installation of a specific package; on Debian/Ubuntu, the package pyqt4-dev-tools must be installed.

For the text based interface:

urwid (console user interface library)
pyinotify (automatically refreshing)
pygments (syntax highlighter)

Warning

the "raw" interface requires urwid >= 9.9.1 and the "curses" interface requires urwid >=1.0.0

How to contribute

Fork this http://bitbucket.org/logilab/hgview
E-mail to to python-projects@lists.logilab.org asking to merge your code
Read The Fine Manual and these comments

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