diff -r 4c4c967814ef -r 80e3cbe227d1 mercurial/namespaces.py
--- a/mercurial/namespaces.py	Mon Dec 15 00:09:52 2014 -0800
+++ b/mercurial/namespaces.py	Sun Dec 14 19:12:27 2014 -0800
@@ -84,3 +84,7 @@
                     return cl.node(maxrev)
                 return n[0]
         raise KeyError(_('no such name: %s') % name)
+
+    def templatename(self, namespace):
+        """method that returns the template name of a namespace"""
+        return self._names[namespace]['templatename']