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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 | b87acfda5268 |
children | b7a966ce89ed |
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$ hg init $ echo foo > a $ echo foo > b $ hg add a b $ hg ci -m "test" $ echo blah > a $ hg ci -m "branch a" $ hg co 0 1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved $ echo blah > b $ hg ci -m "branch b" created new head $ HGMERGE=true hg merge 1 1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved (branch merge, don't forget to commit) $ hg ci -m "merge b/a -> blah" $ hg co 1 1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved $ HGMERGE=true hg merge 2 1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved (branch merge, don't forget to commit) $ hg ci -m "merge a/b -> blah" created new head $ hg log changeset: 4:2ee31f665a86 tag: tip parent: 1:96155394af80 parent: 2:92cc4c306b19 user: test date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 summary: merge a/b -> blah changeset: 3:e16a66a37edd parent: 2:92cc4c306b19 parent: 1:96155394af80 user: test date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 summary: merge b/a -> blah changeset: 2:92cc4c306b19 parent: 0:5e0375449e74 user: test date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 summary: branch b changeset: 1:96155394af80 user: test date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 summary: branch a changeset: 0:5e0375449e74 user: test date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 summary: test $ hg debugindex --changelog rev offset length ..... linkrev nodeid p1 p2 (re) 0 0 60 ..... 0 5e0375449e74 000000000000 000000000000 (re) 1 60 62 ..... 1 96155394af80 5e0375449e74 000000000000 (re) 2 122 62 ..... 2 92cc4c306b19 5e0375449e74 000000000000 (re) 3 184 69 ..... 3 e16a66a37edd 92cc4c306b19 96155394af80 (re) 4 253 29 ..... 4 2ee31f665a86 96155394af80 92cc4c306b19 (re) revision 1 $ hg manifest --debug 1 79d7492df40aa0fa093ec4209be78043c181f094 644 a 2ed2a3912a0b24502043eae84ee4b279c18b90dd 644 b revision 2 $ hg manifest --debug 2 2ed2a3912a0b24502043eae84ee4b279c18b90dd 644 a 79d7492df40aa0fa093ec4209be78043c181f094 644 b revision 3 $ hg manifest --debug 3 79d7492df40aa0fa093ec4209be78043c181f094 644 a 79d7492df40aa0fa093ec4209be78043c181f094 644 b revision 4 $ hg manifest --debug 4 79d7492df40aa0fa093ec4209be78043c181f094 644 a 79d7492df40aa0fa093ec4209be78043c181f094 644 b $ hg debugindex a rev offset length ..... linkrev nodeid p1 p2 (re) 0 0 5 ..... 0 2ed2a3912a0b 000000000000 000000000000 (re) 1 5 6 ..... 1 79d7492df40a 2ed2a3912a0b 000000000000 (re) $ hg verify checking changesets checking manifests crosschecking files in changesets and manifests checking files 2 files, 5 changesets, 4 total revisions