Used to be that `hg help hgrc.paths` would show
"paths"
-------
Assigns symbolic names to repositories. The left side is the symbolic
name, and the right gives the directory or URL that is the location of the
repository. Default paths can be declared by setting the following
entries.
and stop there. Obviously the result seems better as shown in the
attached test.
We used to have two slightly different message which people wouldn't read...
and then complain that they couldn't find the global options or examples.
So we unify them into one message that's upfront that STUFF IS
INTENTIONALLY HIDDEN and that looks more like our normal hint style.
Old behavior:
hg help x hg x -h hg help -e x hg help -c x
config topic topic (!) - cmd
showconfig cmd topic (!) - cmd
rebase cmd cmd ext cmd
New behavior:
hg help x hg x -h hg help -e x hg help -c x
config topic cmd - cmd
showconfig cmd cmd - cmd
rebase cmd cmd ext cmd
When `hg help foobar` fails, it now suggests using `hg help --keyword foobar`
instead of printing a full page of basic commands.
This should greatly increases discoverability of the `hg help --keyword`
argument.
Before this changeset, when no topic were matching the provided keyword ( in
command such as `hg help --keyword babar`) the output was empty. This is
confusing and unhelpful for new users seeking assistance in the help.
We now display:
$ hg help --keyword babar
abort: no matches
(try "hg help" for a list of topics)
This send users in a new direction where they may find what they are looking for.
When using a different language than English, deprecated options were only
removed from the output of `hg help anycmd` when "DEPRECATED" in the options
description was translated.
When table data contained a newline, the result of minirst.maketable
did not look nice plus it was not recognised by minirst.format:
== === ====
l1 1 one
l2 2 2
22
l3
== === ====
This problem occurred when the description of options had a very long
translation which was split by newlines. Do not bother a translator with
this detail.
The multiline translations for option descriptions have been fixed in
7a88a81d5d9e in it.po, de.po and ro.po. I manually did the same as this patch
does, I removed the newlines.
When a newline was in the description, this created unusable help output:
$ hg help somecommand
hg somecommand [option]...
with somecommand, you can...
options:
== =================== =======================================================
=================================== --longdesc VALUE xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -n --norm
normal desc --newline VALUE line1 line2 == =================== ===============
===========================================================================
now this looks much nicer:
...
options:
--longdesc VALUE xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
-n --norm normal desc
--newline VALUE line1 line2
This extension has always had correctness issues and has been
unmaintained for years. It is now removed in favor of the third-party
hgwatchman which is maintained and appears to be correct.
Users with inotify enabled in their config files will fall back to
standard status performance.
Was the behavior correct and the description wrong so it should be updated as
in this patch? Or should the code work as the documentation says?
Both ways could make some sense ... but none of them are obvious in all cases.
One place where it currently cause problems is when the current revision has
another branch head that is closer to tip but closed. 'hg rebase' refuses to
rebase to that as it only see the tip-most unclosed branch head which is the
current revision.
/me kind of likes named branches, but no so much how branch closing works ...
Before this patch, "hg help -k KEYWORD" fails, if there is the
extension of which name includes ".", because "extensions.load()"
invoked from "help.topicmatch()" fails to look such extension up, even
though it is already loaded in.
"help.topicmatch()" invokes "extensions.load()" with the name gotten
from "extensions.enabled()". The former expects full name of extension
(= key in '[extensions]' section), but the latter returns names
shortened by "split('.')[-1]". This difference causes failure of
looking extension up.
This patch adds "shortname" argument to "extensions.enabled()" to make
it return shortened names only if it is True. "help.topicmatch()"
turns it off to get full name of extensions.
Then, this patch shortens full name of extensions by "split('.')[-1]"
for showing them in the list of extensions.
Shortening is also applied on names gotten from
"extensions.disabled()" but harmless, because it returns only
extensions directly under "hgext" and their names should not include
".".
The old docs emphasized topological heads rather than branch heads and
incorrectly defined branch heads as not having children rather than
descendants.
