help: add a mechanism to change flags' help depending on config
It seems reasonable to have a similar mechanism for the rest of the
help, but no such thing is implemented.
The goal is to make the help of commands clearer in the presence of
significant default changes, like tweakdefaults or with company-wide
hgrcs. In these cases, a user looking at the help of a command doesn't
exactly know what his hgrc is doing.
Apply to this to the --git option of commands that display diffs, as
this option in particular causes confusion for some reason.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D8100
#require symlink
$ echo "[extensions]" >> $HGRCPATH
$ echo "mq=" >> $HGRCPATH
$ hg init
$ hg qinit
$ hg qnew base.patch
$ echo aaa > a
$ echo bbb > b
$ echo ccc > c
$ hg add a b c
$ hg qrefresh
$ readlink.py a
a -> a not a symlink
test replacing a file with a symlink
$ hg qnew symlink.patch
$ rm a
$ ln -s b a
$ hg qrefresh --git
$ readlink.py a
a -> b
$ hg qpop
popping symlink.patch
now at: base.patch
$ hg qpush
applying symlink.patch
now at: symlink.patch
$ readlink.py a
a -> b
test updating a symlink
$ rm a
$ ln -s c a
$ hg qnew --git -f updatelink
$ readlink.py a
a -> c
$ hg qpop
popping updatelink
now at: symlink.patch
$ hg qpush --debug
applying updatelink
patching file a
committing files:
a
committing manifest
committing changelog
updating the branch cache
now at: updatelink
$ readlink.py a
a -> c
$ hg st
test replacing a symlink with a file
$ ln -s c s
$ hg add s
$ hg qnew --git -f addlink
$ rm s
$ echo sss > s
$ hg qnew --git -f replacelinkwithfile
$ hg qpop
popping replacelinkwithfile
now at: addlink
$ hg qpush
applying replacelinkwithfile
now at: replacelinkwithfile
$ cat s
sss
$ hg st
test symlink removal
$ hg qnew removesl.patch
$ hg rm a
$ hg qrefresh --git
$ hg qpop
popping removesl.patch
now at: replacelinkwithfile
$ hg qpush
applying removesl.patch
now at: removesl.patch
$ hg st -c
C b
C c
C s
replace broken symlink with another broken symlink
$ ln -s linka linka
$ hg add linka
$ hg qnew link
$ hg mv linka linkb
$ rm linkb
$ ln -s linkb linkb
$ hg qnew movelink
$ hg qpop
popping movelink
now at: link
$ hg qpush
applying movelink
now at: movelink
$ readlink.py linkb
linkb -> linkb