hg-number

A Python 3.6 wrapper script around hg that does for hg what git-number does for git.

No installation required. Simply add to your $PATH.

If you like, you can add some convenient aliases to your .bashrc

alias hn=hg-number
alias vn='hg-number -c vi'

Where g4 status shows output like

$ hg status
M contrib/fuzz/xdiff.cc
A contrib/acme.py
M thirdparty/xdiff/xprepare.c

hn shows paths relative to the current working directory prefixed by a shortcut, eg, from contrib this shows:

$ hn

1 M fuzz/xdiff.cc
2 A acme.py
3 M ../thirdparty/xdiff/xprepare.c

hn status stores a list of shortcuts and the repo-relative paths they map onto in .hg/hg-number-shortcuts.txt.

When hn is run with arguments, it expands any shortcuts to full depot paths and invokes hg with these arguments.

In addition, if the first argument to hn is -c, the second argument is treated as the shell command to run, and the shortcuts are expanded to paths relative to the current directory.

hn revert 3 expands to hg revert ../thirdparty/xdiff/xprepare.c

hn -c wc -l 1-3 expands to wc -l fuzz/xdiff.cc acme.py ../thirdparty/xdiff/xprepare.c