make --style=compact look for map-cmdline.compact. change name of key in map file from changelog to changeset. rename command map files to start with map-cmdline. rename ui.logmap to ui.style in hgrc. now --style=foo does this: tries to open foo as file. tries as map-cmdline.foo in template path. tries as foo in template path.

#!/bin/sh

hg init
echo 123 > a
hg add a
hg commit -m "first" -d "0 0" a
mkdir sub
echo 321 > sub/b
hg add sub/b
hg commit -m "second" -d "0 0" sub/b
cat sub/b
hg co 0
cat sub/b
ls sub

true