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doc: show short description of each commands in generated documents
Before this patch, short description of each commands is not shown in
generated documents (HTML file and UNIX man page). This omitting may
prevent users from understanding about commands.
This patch show it as the 1st paragraph in the help section of each
commands. This style is chosen because:
- showing it as the section title in "command - short desc" style
disallows referencing by "#command" in HTML file: in "en" locale,
hyphen concatenated title is used as the section ID in HTML file
for this style
- showing it as the 1st paragraph in "command - short desc" style
seems to be redundant: "command" appears also just before as the
section title
- showing it just after synopsis like "hg help command" seems not to
be reasonable in UNIX man page
This patch just writes short description ("d['desc'][0]") before "::",
because it should be already "strip()"-ed in "get_desc()", or empty
string for the command without description.
author | FUJIWARA Katsunori <foozy@lares.dti.ne.jp> |
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date | Tue, 11 Mar 2014 14:36:40 +0900 |
parents | ebfc46929f3e |
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Mercurial's default format for showing changes between two versions of a file is compatible with the unified format of GNU diff, which can be used by GNU patch and many other standard tools. While this standard format is often enough, it does not encode the following information: - executable status and other permission bits - copy or rename information - changes in binary files - creation or deletion of empty files Mercurial also supports the extended diff format from the git VCS which addresses these limitations. The git diff format is not produced by default because a few widespread tools still do not understand this format. This means that when generating diffs from a Mercurial repository (e.g. with :hg:`export`), you should be careful about things like file copies and renames or other things mentioned above, because when applying a standard diff to a different repository, this extra information is lost. Mercurial's internal operations (like push and pull) are not affected by this, because they use an internal binary format for communicating changes. To make Mercurial produce the git extended diff format, use the --git option available for many commands, or set 'git = True' in the [diff] section of your configuration file. You do not need to set this option when importing diffs in this format or using them in the mq extension.