Use customized xml output from the 'hg log' command Do that to parse commit messages correctly (TW-18036). Also 'hg log' can provide information on changed files, so we will not run a 'hg status' for every found cset, that should improve changes collecting performance. Use custom xml format mainly because of the difference in the author output. Default xml splits the author to the person and the email, while default verbose log uses unsplitted author. It is not clear how to make original author from the person and the email, because author|person is not empty even if there is no person in the ui.username config. Also default xml uses date format rfc3339date, which is harder to parse. root: /home/nd/sandbox/hg-plugin/original/ HG: branch: Eluru-6.0.x HG: committing mercurial-common/mercurial-common.iml mercurial-common/src/jetbrains/buildServer/buildTriggers/vcs/mercurial/command/ChangeSet.java mercurial-common/src/jetbrains/buildServer/buildTriggers/vcs/mercurial/command/CommandUtil.java mercurial-common/src/jetbrains/buildServer/buildTriggers/vcs/mercurial/command/LogCommand.java mercurial-server/src/jetbrains/buildServer/buildTriggers/vcs/mercurial/MercurialVcsSupport.java mercurial-tests/src/jetbrains/buildServer/buildTriggers/vcs/mercurial/MercurialVcsSupportTest.java mercurial-tests/src/jetbrains/buildServer/buildTriggers/vcs/mercurial/command/LogCommandTest.java mercurial.ipr mercurial.xml mercurial-server/resources/buildServerResources/log.template HG: Press C-c C-c when you are done editing.

header = '<?xml version="1.0"?>\n<log>\n'
footer = '</log>\n'

changeset = '<logentry revision="{rev}" node="{node}" shortnode="{node|short}">\n{branches}{tags}{parents}<author original="{author|xmlescape}" email="{author|email|xmlescape}">{author|person|xmlescape}</author>\n<date>{date|date|xmlescape}</date>\n<msg xml:space="preserve">{desc|xmlescape}</msg>\n<paths>\n{file_adds}{file_dels}{file_mods}</paths>\n{file_copies}</logentry>\n'

file_add  = '<path action="A">{file_add|xmlescape}</path>\n'
file_mod  = '<path action="M">{file_mod|xmlescape}</path>\n'
file_del  = '<path action="R">{file_del|xmlescape}</path>\n'

start_file_copies = '<copies>\n'
file_copy = '<copy source="{source|xmlescape}">{name|xmlescape}</copy>\n'
end_file_copies = '</copies>\n'

parent = '<parent revision="{rev}" node="{node}" shortnode="{node|short}"/>\n'
branch = '<branch>{branch|xmlescape}</branch>\n'
tag = '<tag>{tag|xmlescape}</tag>\n'
extra = '<extra key="{key|xmlescape}">{value|xmlescape}</extra>\n'