annotate mercurial/help/phases.txt @ 17267:979b107eaea2 stable

doc: unify section level between help topics

Some help topics use "-" for the top level underlining section mark,
but "-" is used also for the top level categorization in generated
documents: "hg.1.html", for example.

So, TOC in such documents contain "sections in each topics", too.

This patch changes underlining section mark in some help topics to
unify section level in generated documents.

After this patching, levels of each section marks are:

  level0
  """"""
    level1
    ======
      level2
      ------
        level3
        ......
          level4
          ######

And use of section markers in each documents are:

  - mercurial/help/*.txt can use level1 or more
    (now these use level1 and level2)

  - help for core commands can use level2 or more
    (now these use no section marker)

  - descriptions of extensions can use level2 or more
    (now hgext/acl uses level2)

  - help for commands defined in extension can use level4 or more
    (now "convert" of hgext/convert uses level4)

"Level0" is used as top level categorization only in "doc/hg.1.txt"
and the intermediate file generated by "doc/gendoc.py", so end users
don't see it in "hg help" outoput and so on.

What are phases?
================

Phases are a system for tracking which changesets have been or should
be shared. This helps prevent common mistakes when modifying history
(for instance, with the mq or rebase extensions).

Each changeset in a repository is in one of the following phases:

 - public : changeset is visible on a public server
 - draft : changeset is not yet published
 - secret : changeset should not be pushed, pulled, or cloned

These phases are ordered (public < draft < secret) and no changeset
can be in a lower phase than its ancestors. For instance, if a
changeset is public, all its ancestors are also public. Lastly,
changeset phases should only be changed towards the public phase.

How are phases managed?
=======================

For the most part, phases should work transparently. By default, a
changeset is created in the draft phase and is moved into the public
phase when it is pushed to another repository.

Once changesets become public, extensions like mq and rebase will
refuse to operate on them to prevent creating duplicate changesets.
Phases can also be manually manipulated with the :hg:`phase` command
if needed. See :hg:`help -v phase` for examples.

Phases and servers
==================

Normally, all servers are ``publishing`` by default. This means::

 - all draft changesets that are pulled or cloned appear in phase
 public on the client

 - all draft changesets that are pushed appear as public on both
 client and server

 - secret changesets are neither pushed, pulled, or cloned

.. note::
  Pulling a draft changeset from a publishing server does not mark it
  as public on the server side due to the read-only nature of pull.

Sometimes it may be desirable to push and pull changesets in the draft
phase to share unfinished work. This can be done by setting a
repository to disable publishing in its configuration file::

  [phases]
  publish = False

See :hg:`help config` for more information on config files.

.. note::
  Servers running older versions of Mercurial are treated as
  publishing.

Examples
========

 - list changesets in draft or secret phase::

     hg log -r "not public()"

 - change all secret changesets to draft::

     hg phase --draft "secret()"

 - forcibly move the current changeset and descendants from public to draft::

     hg phase --force --draft .

 - show a list of changeset revision and phase::

     hg log --template "{rev} {phase}\n"

 - resynchronize draft changesets relative to a remote repository::

     hg phase -fd 'outgoing(URL)' 

See :hg:`help phase` for more information on manually manipulating phases.