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.
It is not very helpful to have 'Added tag %s for changeset %s' and
similar messages translated into different languages when people work
together using different locales.
We now use English strings without support for translations. If
needed, the user can still supply a custom string for most commands.
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.
Previously, fetch didn't really work when there were multiple named branches
in the repository. Now it tries to do the right thing(tm) in all situations.
This treats newly pulled changes as authoritative, and local changes as
the "satellite" changes.
The prior default behaviour is still available, via the --switch-parent
option.
commit (aborts _after_ typing in a commit message)
backout (aborted after the initial revert)
tag (edited .hgtags and couldn't commit)
import (patch applied, then commit fails)
qnew (aborts on bad dates, but writes any valid date into the # Date header)
qrefresh (like qnew)
sign (like tag)
fetch (merge, merge, merge, merge, abort)