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help: un-indent help topics
The help topics are reused in the HTML documentation, and there it
looks odd that whole sections are indented. We now only indent it for
output on the terminal.
author | Martin Geisler <mg@lazybytes.net> |
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date | Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:18:43 +0200 |
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1 Mercurial supports several ways to specify individual revisions. | 1 Mercurial supports several ways to specify individual revisions. |
2 | 2 |
3 A plain integer is treated as a revision number. Negative integers | 3 A plain integer is treated as a revision number. Negative integers are |
4 are treated as sequential offsets from the tip, with -1 denoting | 4 treated as sequential offsets from the tip, with -1 denoting the tip, |
5 the tip, -2 denoting the revision prior to the tip, and so forth. | 5 -2 denoting the revision prior to the tip, and so forth. |
6 | 6 |
7 A 40-digit hexadecimal string is treated as a unique revision | 7 A 40-digit hexadecimal string is treated as a unique revision |
8 identifier. | 8 identifier. |
9 | 9 |
10 A hexadecimal string less than 40 characters long is treated as a | 10 A hexadecimal string less than 40 characters long is treated as a |
11 unique revision identifier and is referred to as a short-form | 11 unique revision identifier and is referred to as a short-form |
12 identifier. A short-form identifier is only valid if it is the | 12 identifier. A short-form identifier is only valid if it is the prefix |
13 prefix of exactly one full-length identifier. | 13 of exactly one full-length identifier. |
14 | 14 |
15 Any other string is treated as a tag or branch name. A tag name is | 15 Any other string is treated as a tag or branch name. A tag name is a |
16 a symbolic name associated with a revision identifier. A branch | 16 symbolic name associated with a revision identifier. A branch name |
17 name denotes the tipmost revision of that branch. Tag and branch | 17 denotes the tipmost revision of that branch. Tag and branch names must |
18 names must not contain the ":" character. | 18 not contain the ":" character. |
19 | 19 |
20 The reserved name "tip" is a special tag that always identifies | 20 The reserved name "tip" is a special tag that always identifies the |
21 the most recent revision. | 21 most recent revision. |
22 | 22 |
23 The reserved name "null" indicates the null revision. This is the | 23 The reserved name "null" indicates the null revision. This is the |
24 revision of an empty repository, and the parent of revision 0. | 24 revision of an empty repository, and the parent of revision 0. |
25 | 25 |
26 The reserved name "." indicates the working directory parent. If | 26 The reserved name "." indicates the working directory parent. If no |
27 no working directory is checked out, it is equivalent to null. If | 27 working directory is checked out, it is equivalent to null. If an |
28 an uncommitted merge is in progress, "." is the revision of the | 28 uncommitted merge is in progress, "." is the revision of the first |
29 first parent. | 29 parent. |