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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>
date Sun, 09 Oct 2016 03:11:18 +0200
parents 318534bb5dfd
children c425b678df7c
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#!/usr/bin/env python

"""
Utility for inspecting files in various ways.

This tool is like the collection of tools found in a unix environment but are
cross platform and stable and suitable for our needs in the test suite.

This can be used instead of tools like:
  [
  dd
  find
  head
  hexdump
  ls
  md5sum
  readlink
  sha1sum
  stat
  tail
  test
  readlink.py
  md5sum.py
"""

from __future__ import absolute_import

import glob
import hashlib
import optparse
import os
import re
import sys

def visit(opts, filenames, outfile):
    """Process filenames in the way specified in opts, writing output to
    outfile."""
    for f in sorted(filenames):
        isstdin = f == '-'
        if not isstdin and not os.path.lexists(f):
            outfile.write('%s: file not found\n' % f)
            continue
        quiet = opts.quiet and not opts.recurse or isstdin
        isdir = os.path.isdir(f)
        islink = os.path.islink(f)
        isfile = os.path.isfile(f) and not islink
        dirfiles = None
        content = None
        facts = []
        if isfile:
            if opts.type:
                facts.append('file')
            if opts.hexdump or opts.dump or opts.md5:
                content = file(f, 'rb').read()
        elif islink:
            if opts.type:
                facts.append('link')
            content = os.readlink(f)
        elif isstdin:
            content = sys.stdin.read()
            if opts.size:
                facts.append('size=%s' % len(content))
        elif isdir:
            if opts.recurse or opts.type:
                dirfiles = glob.glob(f + '/*')
                facts.append('directory with %s files' % len(dirfiles))
        elif opts.type:
            facts.append('type unknown')
        if not isstdin:
            stat = os.lstat(f)
            if opts.size and not isdir:
                facts.append('size=%s' % stat.st_size)
            if opts.mode and not islink:
                facts.append('mode=%o' % (stat.st_mode & 0o777))
            if opts.links:
                facts.append('links=%s' % stat.st_nlink)
            if opts.newer:
                # mtime might be in whole seconds so newer file might be same
                if stat.st_mtime >= os.stat(opts.newer).st_mtime:
                    facts.append('newer than %s' % opts.newer)
                else:
                    facts.append('older than %s' % opts.newer)
        if opts.md5 and content is not None:
            h = hashlib.md5(content)
            facts.append('md5=%s' % h.hexdigest()[:opts.bytes])
        if opts.sha1 and content is not None:
            h = hashlib.sha1(content)
            facts.append('sha1=%s' % h.hexdigest()[:opts.bytes])
        if isstdin:
            outfile.write(', '.join(facts) + '\n')
        elif facts:
            outfile.write('%s: %s\n' % (f, ', '.join(facts)))
        elif not quiet:
            outfile.write('%s:\n' % f)
        if content is not None:
            chunk = content
            if not islink:
                if opts.lines:
                    if opts.lines >= 0:
                        chunk = ''.join(chunk.splitlines(True)[:opts.lines])
                    else:
                        chunk = ''.join(chunk.splitlines(True)[opts.lines:])
                if opts.bytes:
                    if opts.bytes >= 0:
                        chunk = chunk[:opts.bytes]
                    else:
                        chunk = chunk[opts.bytes:]
            if opts.hexdump:
                for i in range(0, len(chunk), 16):
                    s = chunk[i:i + 16]
                    outfile.write('%04x: %-47s |%s|\n' %
                                  (i, ' '.join('%02x' % ord(c) for c in s),
                                   re.sub('[^ -~]', '.', s)))
            if opts.dump:
                if not quiet:
                    outfile.write('>>>\n')
                outfile.write(chunk)
                if not quiet:
                    if chunk.endswith('\n'):
                        outfile.write('<<<\n')
                    else:
                        outfile.write('\n<<< no trailing newline\n')
        if opts.recurse and dirfiles:
            assert not isstdin
            visit(opts, dirfiles, outfile)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    parser = optparse.OptionParser("%prog [options] [filenames]")
    parser.add_option("-t", "--type", action="store_true",
                      help="show file type (file or directory)")
    parser.add_option("-m", "--mode", action="store_true",
                      help="show file mode")
    parser.add_option("-l", "--links", action="store_true",
                      help="show number of links")
    parser.add_option("-s", "--size", action="store_true",
                      help="show size of file")
    parser.add_option("-n", "--newer", action="store",
                      help="check if file is newer (or same)")
    parser.add_option("-r", "--recurse", action="store_true",
                      help="recurse into directories")
    parser.add_option("-S", "--sha1", action="store_true",
                      help="show sha1 hash of the content")
    parser.add_option("-M", "--md5", action="store_true",
                      help="show md5 hash of the content")
    parser.add_option("-D", "--dump", action="store_true",
                      help="dump file content")
    parser.add_option("-H", "--hexdump", action="store_true",
                      help="hexdump file content")
    parser.add_option("-B", "--bytes", type="int",
                      help="number of characters to dump")
    parser.add_option("-L", "--lines", type="int",
                      help="number of lines to dump")
    parser.add_option("-q", "--quiet", action="store_true",
                      help="no default output")
    (opts, filenames) = parser.parse_args(sys.argv[1:])
    if not filenames:
        filenames = ['-']

    visit(opts, filenames, sys.stdout)