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help: backout f3c4edfd35e1 (mark boolean flags with [no-] in help) for now
The ability to negate any boolean flags itself is great, but I think we are not
ready to expose the help side of it yet.
First, while there exist a handful of such flags whose default value can be
changed (eg: git diff, patchwork confirmation), there is only a few of them. The
users who benefit the most from this change are alias users and large
installation that can deploy extension to change behavior (eg: facebook
tweakdefault). So the majority of user who will be affected by a large change
to command help that is not yet relevant to them. (I expect this to become
relevant when ui.progressive start to exists).
Below is an example of the impact of the new help on 'hg help diff':
-r --rev REV [+] revision
-c --change REV change made by revision
-a --[no-]text treat all files as text
-g --[no-]git use git extended diff format
--[no-]nodates omit dates from diff headers
--[no-]noprefix omit a/ and b/ prefixes from filenames
-p --[no-]show-function show which function each change is in
--[no-]reverse produce a diff that undoes the changes
-w --[no-]ignore-all-space ignore white space when comparing lines
-b --[no-]ignore-space-change ignore changes in the amount of white space
-B --[no-]ignore-blank-lines ignore changes whose lines are all blank
-U --unified NUM number of lines of context to show
--[no-]stat output diffstat-style summary of changes
--root DIR produce diffs relative to subdirectory
-I --include PATTERN [+] include names matching the given patterns
-X --exclude PATTERN [+] exclude names matching the given patterns
-S --[no-]subrepos recurse into subrepositories
Another issue with the current state of help, the default value for the
flag is not conveyed to the user. For example in the 'backout' help, there is
no real distinction between "--[no-]backup" (default to True) and "--[no-]keep"
(default) to False:
--[no-]backup no backups
--[no-]keep do not modify working directory during strip
In addition, I've discussed with Augie Fackler and the last batch of the work on
this have burned him out quite some. Therefore he is not intending to perform
any more work on this topic. Quoting him, he would rather see the help part
backed out than spending more time on it.
I do not think we are ready to expose this to users in 4.0 (freeze in a week),
especially because we cannot expect quick improvement on these aspect as this
topic no longer have an owner. We should be able to reintroduce that change in
the future when someone get back on it and the main issues are solves:
* Introduction of ui.progressive makes it relevant for a majority of user,
* Current default value are efficiently conveyed to the user.
(In addition, the excerpt from diff help show that we still have some issue with
some negative option like '--nodates' so further improvement are probably
welcome there.)
author | Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@ens-lyon.org> |
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date | Sun, 09 Oct 2016 03:11:18 +0200 |
parents | aa3f726a2bdb |
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DOCUMENT_ROOT="/var/www/hg"; export DOCUMENT_ROOT GATEWAY_INTERFACE="CGI/1.1"; export GATEWAY_INTERFACE HTTP_ACCEPT="text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5"; export HTTP_ACCEPT HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET="ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7"; export HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING="gzip,deflate"; export HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE="en-us,en;q=0.5"; export HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL="max-age=0"; export HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL HTTP_CONNECTION="keep-alive"; export HTTP_CONNECTION HTTP_HOST="hg.omnifarious.org"; export HTTP_HOST HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE="300"; export HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE HTTP_USER_AGENT="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060608 Ubuntu/dapper-security Firefox/1.5.0.4"; export HTTP_USER_AGENT PATH_INFO="/"; export PATH_INFO PATH_TRANSLATED="/var/www/hg/index.html"; export PATH_TRANSLATED QUERY_STRING=""; export QUERY_STRING REMOTE_ADDR="127.0.0.2"; export REMOTE_ADDR REMOTE_PORT="44703"; export REMOTE_PORT REQUEST_METHOD="GET"; export REQUEST_METHOD REQUEST_URI="/test/"; export REQUEST_URI SCRIPT_FILENAME="/home/hopper/hg_public/test.cgi"; export SCRIPT_FILENAME SCRIPT_NAME="/test"; export SCRIPT_NAME SCRIPT_URI="http://hg.omnifarious.org/test/"; export SCRIPT_URI SCRIPT_URL="/test/"; export SCRIPT_URL SERVER_ADDR="127.0.0.1"; export SERVER_ADDR SERVER_ADMIN="eric@localhost"; export SERVER_ADMIN SERVER_NAME="hg.omnifarious.org"; export SERVER_NAME SERVER_PORT="80"; export SERVER_PORT SERVER_PROTOCOL="HTTP/1.1"; export SERVER_PROTOCOL SERVER_SIGNATURE="<address>Apache/2.0.53 (Fedora) Server at hg.omnifarious.org Port 80</address>"; export SERVER_SIGNATURE SERVER_SOFTWARE="Apache/2.0.53 (Fedora)"; export SERVER_SOFTWARE