Commands That Support Styles and Templates

All of Mercurial’s log-like commands let you use styles and templates: hg incoming, hg log, hg outgoing, and hg tip.

As of this writing, these are the only commands that support styles and templates. Since these are the most important commands that need customizable output, there has been little pressure from the Mercurial user community to add style and template support to other commands.

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