I have made a help topic for merge tools. The text in the topic is
based on the http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/MergeProgram page from
the wiki, along with some extra information on the internal merge tools.
Joint work with Vishakh Harikumar, Pradeepkumar Gayam, David Champion,
Mark Booth, timeless, Matt Mackall, Heinrik Stuart, Greg Ward, and
Martin Geisler.
Before a command is declared unknown, each extension in hgext is searched,
starting with hgext.<cmdname>. If there's a matching command, a help message
suggests the appropriate extension and how to enable it.
Every extension could potentially be imported, but for cases like rebase,
relink, etc. only one extension is imported.
For the case of "hg help disabledext", if the extension is in hgext, the
extension description is read and a similar help suggestion is printed.
No extension import occurs.
This is a condensed version of the first two sections of hgrc.5.txt.
After a slight upgrade of minirst, we can move the whole of hgrc.5.txt
into the config help topic and just let the man page include it.
This can be used for referring to revisions in a reasonable
meaningful, stable and monotonically increasing way, suitable for
releases or builds directly from a repository.
The latest tag is found by searching through untagged ancestors and
finding the latest tagged ancestor based on tag date. The distance is
found from the length of the longest path to the tagged revision.
For example:
hg log -l1 --template '{latesttag}+{latesttagdistance}\n'
can return
1.3.1+197
This is mostly work by Gilles Moris <gilles.moris@free.fr>
The Makefile now requires the rst2html and rst2man programs. Both can
be found in Debian testing or downloaded from the Docutils homepage:
http://docutils.sf.net/http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/manpage-writer/
The new HTML and man pages no longer contain huge amounts of
un-wrapping literal blocks, thanks to how snippets of reStructuredText
can easily be included inside other reStructuredText documents.
The HTML pages now have anchors for all sections, including the help
topics in hgrc.1 which were missing from the old HTML pages.
The code for wrapping a single line of text with a hanging indent was
duplicated in commands and help -- it's now moved to a new function
called wrap in util.
The function defaults to a line width is 78 chars, and this un-wraps
some command line flag descriptions, hence the test output changes.
Currently listing non-enabled extensions and a short introductory text.
Thanks to Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen for the preliminary
proof-of-concept code for listing available extensions.
The gettext function is just another name for the normal _ function
and it is used for translating docstrings when using _ would make
pygettext.py output a warning.
When looking up a help topic, the key is now only matched against the
short names for each topic, and not the header. So
hg help 'Environment Variables'
must be replaced with
hg help env
Move the "Specifying Single Revisions" and "Specifying Multiple
Revisions" help topics from the manual page into the helptable
so they are available both online and in the manual page.
The helptable is used for helptopics listed in the manual
page, so the order of topics should not be random.
Convert it from a dictionary into a tuple of tuples.
Also reorder helptable entries to keep previous manual
page order.
Simply use find_exe('hg') as the default value for $HG and require to manually
set it if you have special requirements.
While the default will not always be 100% correct (i.e. the identical hg
version) for many users it is and for the others the hg executable found in
the PATH should do most things correctly.
Developers or other users with multiple installs can set $HG or run something
like util.set_hgexecutable in their shell or python scripts.
Additionally util.hgexecutable() is now available so extensions can access
the value with a public interface, too.
