The most appropriate context is not always clearly defined. The obvious cases:
For working directory commands, we use None
For commands (eg annotate) with single revs, we use that revision
The less obvious cases:
For commands (eg status, diff) with a pair of revs, we use the second revision
For commands that take a range (like log), we use None
Currently, a number of commands and help topics mention the user hgrc
file in different ways. Among these are following:
1. .hgrc - "please specify your commit editor/username in your .hgrc
file", bookmarks, color, hgk, pager, hg help environment
2. $HOME/.hgrc - hg help paths, hgrc(5), hg(1)
3. ~/.hgrc - hgrc(5)
In addition to being inconsistent, none of these make sense on
Windows. This patch replaces the above with a more general term of
"[your] configuration file".
this helps users to know what kind of option is:
- no value is required(flag option)
- value is required
- value is required, and multiple occurrences are allowed
each kinds are shown as below:
-f --force force push
-e --ssh CMD specify ssh command to use
-b --branch BRANCH [+] a specific branch you would like to push
if one or more 3rd type options are shown, explanation for '[+]' mark
is also shown as footnote.
Trying as much as possible to consistently:
- use a present tense predicate followed by a direct object
- verb referring directly to the functionality provided
(ie. not "add command that does this" but simple "do that")
- keep simple and to the point, leaving details for the long help
(width is tight, possibly even more so for translations)
Thanks to timeless, Martin Geisler, Rafael Villar Burke, Dan Villiom
Podlaski Christiansen and others for the helpful suggestions.
Changes docstrings to begin with a lowercase word. Only docstrings
used in help output is changed.
Scripts are not expected to grep the output of 'hg help' so this
change should pose no problem with regard to the compatibility rules.