view tests/test-globalopts.t @ 30152:d65e246100ed

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.)

  $ hg init a
  $ cd a
  $ echo a > a
  $ hg ci -A -d'1 0' -m a
  adding a

  $ cd ..

  $ hg init b
  $ cd b
  $ echo b > b
  $ hg ci -A -d'1 0' -m b
  adding b

  $ cd ..

  $ hg clone a c
  updating to branch default
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ cd c
  $ cat >> .hg/hgrc <<EOF
  > [paths]
  > relative = ../a
  > EOF
  $ hg pull -f ../b
  pulling from ../b
  searching for changes
  warning: repository is unrelated
  requesting all changes
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files (+1 heads)
  (run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)
  $ hg merge
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  (branch merge, don't forget to commit)

  $ cd ..

Testing -R/--repository:

  $ hg -R a tip
  changeset:   0:8580ff50825a
  tag:         tip
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:01 1970 +0000
  summary:     a
  
  $ hg --repository b tip
  changeset:   0:b6c483daf290
  tag:         tip
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:01 1970 +0000
  summary:     b
  

-R with a URL:

  $ hg -R file:a identify
  8580ff50825a tip
  $ hg -R file://localhost/`pwd`/a/ identify
  8580ff50825a tip

-R with path aliases:

  $ cd c
  $ hg -R default identify
  8580ff50825a tip
  $ hg -R relative identify
  8580ff50825a tip
  $ echo '[paths]' >> $HGRCPATH
  $ echo 'relativetohome = a' >> $HGRCPATH
  $ HOME=`pwd`/../ hg -R relativetohome identify
  8580ff50825a tip
  $ cd ..

#if no-outer-repo

Implicit -R:

  $ hg ann a/a
  0: a
  $ hg ann a/a a/a
  0: a
  $ hg ann a/a b/b
  abort: no repository found in '$TESTTMP' (.hg not found)!
  [255]
  $ hg -R b ann a/a
  abort: a/a not under root '$TESTTMP/b' (glob)
  (consider using '--cwd b')
  [255]
  $ hg log
  abort: no repository found in '$TESTTMP' (.hg not found)!
  [255]

#endif

Abbreviation of long option:

  $ hg --repo c tip
  changeset:   1:b6c483daf290
  tag:         tip
  parent:      -1:000000000000
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:01 1970 +0000
  summary:     b
  

earlygetopt with duplicate options (36d23de02da1):

  $ hg --cwd a --cwd b --cwd c tip
  changeset:   1:b6c483daf290
  tag:         tip
  parent:      -1:000000000000
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:01 1970 +0000
  summary:     b
  
  $ hg --repo c --repository b -R a tip
  changeset:   0:8580ff50825a
  tag:         tip
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:01 1970 +0000
  summary:     a
  

earlygetopt short option without following space:

  $ hg -q -Rb tip
  0:b6c483daf290

earlygetopt with illegal abbreviations:

  $ hg --confi "foo.bar=baz"
  abort: option --config may not be abbreviated!
  [255]
  $ hg --cw a tip
  abort: option --cwd may not be abbreviated!
  [255]
  $ hg --rep a tip
  abort: option -R has to be separated from other options (e.g. not -qR) and --repository may only be abbreviated as --repo!
  [255]
  $ hg --repositor a tip
  abort: option -R has to be separated from other options (e.g. not -qR) and --repository may only be abbreviated as --repo!
  [255]
  $ hg -qR a tip
  abort: option -R has to be separated from other options (e.g. not -qR) and --repository may only be abbreviated as --repo!
  [255]
  $ hg -qRa tip
  abort: option -R has to be separated from other options (e.g. not -qR) and --repository may only be abbreviated as --repo!
  [255]

Testing --cwd:

  $ hg --cwd a parents
  changeset:   0:8580ff50825a
  tag:         tip
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:01 1970 +0000
  summary:     a
  

Testing -y/--noninteractive - just be sure it is parsed:

  $ hg --cwd a tip -q --noninteractive
  0:8580ff50825a
  $ hg --cwd a tip -q -y
  0:8580ff50825a

Testing -q/--quiet:

  $ hg -R a -q tip
  0:8580ff50825a
  $ hg -R b -q tip
  0:b6c483daf290
  $ hg -R c --quiet parents
  0:8580ff50825a
  1:b6c483daf290

Testing -v/--verbose:

  $ hg --cwd c head -v
  changeset:   1:b6c483daf290
  tag:         tip
  parent:      -1:000000000000
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:01 1970 +0000
  files:       b
  description:
  b
  
  
  changeset:   0:8580ff50825a
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:01 1970 +0000
  files:       a
  description:
  a
  
  
  $ hg --cwd b tip --verbose
  changeset:   0:b6c483daf290
  tag:         tip
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:01 1970 +0000
  files:       b
  description:
  b
  
  

Testing --config:

  $ hg --cwd c --config paths.quuxfoo=bar paths | grep quuxfoo > /dev/null && echo quuxfoo
  quuxfoo
  $ hg --cwd c --config '' tip -q
  abort: malformed --config option: '' (use --config section.name=value)
  [255]
  $ hg --cwd c --config a.b tip -q
  abort: malformed --config option: 'a.b' (use --config section.name=value)
  [255]
  $ hg --cwd c --config a tip -q
  abort: malformed --config option: 'a' (use --config section.name=value)
  [255]
  $ hg --cwd c --config a.= tip -q
  abort: malformed --config option: 'a.=' (use --config section.name=value)
  [255]
  $ hg --cwd c --config .b= tip -q
  abort: malformed --config option: '.b=' (use --config section.name=value)
  [255]

Testing --debug:

  $ hg --cwd c log --debug
  changeset:   1:b6c483daf2907ce5825c0bb50f5716226281cc1a
  tag:         tip
  phase:       public
  parent:      -1:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
  parent:      -1:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
  manifest:    1:23226e7a252cacdc2d99e4fbdc3653441056de49
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:01 1970 +0000
  files+:      b
  extra:       branch=default
  description:
  b
  
  
  changeset:   0:8580ff50825a50c8f716709acdf8de0deddcd6ab
  phase:       public
  parent:      -1:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
  parent:      -1:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
  manifest:    0:a0c8bcbbb45c63b90b70ad007bf38961f64f2af0
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:01 1970 +0000
  files+:      a
  extra:       branch=default
  description:
  a
  
  

Testing --traceback:

  $ hg --cwd c --config x --traceback id 2>&1 | grep -i 'traceback'
  Traceback (most recent call last):

Testing --time:

  $ hg --cwd a --time id
  8580ff50825a tip
  time: real * (glob)

Testing --version:

  $ hg --version -q
  Mercurial Distributed SCM * (glob)

hide outer repo
  $ hg init

Testing -h/--help:

  $ hg -h
  Mercurial Distributed SCM
  
  list of commands:
  
   add           add the specified files on the next commit
   addremove     add all new files, delete all missing files
   annotate      show changeset information by line for each file
   archive       create an unversioned archive of a repository revision
   backout       reverse effect of earlier changeset
   bisect        subdivision search of changesets
   bookmarks     create a new bookmark or list existing bookmarks
   branch        set or show the current branch name
   branches      list repository named branches
   bundle        create a changegroup file
   cat           output the current or given revision of files
   clone         make a copy of an existing repository
   commit        commit the specified files or all outstanding changes
   config        show combined config settings from all hgrc files
   copy          mark files as copied for the next commit
   diff          diff repository (or selected files)
   export        dump the header and diffs for one or more changesets
   files         list tracked files
   forget        forget the specified files on the next commit
   graft         copy changes from other branches onto the current branch
   grep          search revision history for a pattern in specified files
   heads         show branch heads
   help          show help for a given topic or a help overview
   identify      identify the working directory or specified revision
   import        import an ordered set of patches
   incoming      show new changesets found in source
   init          create a new repository in the given directory
   log           show revision history of entire repository or files
   manifest      output the current or given revision of the project manifest
   merge         merge another revision into working directory
   outgoing      show changesets not found in the destination
   paths         show aliases for remote repositories
   phase         set or show the current phase name
   pull          pull changes from the specified source
   push          push changes to the specified destination
   recover       roll back an interrupted transaction
   remove        remove the specified files on the next commit
   rename        rename files; equivalent of copy + remove
   resolve       redo merges or set/view the merge status of files
   revert        restore files to their checkout state
   root          print the root (top) of the current working directory
   serve         start stand-alone webserver
   status        show changed files in the working directory
   summary       summarize working directory state
   tag           add one or more tags for the current or given revision
   tags          list repository tags
   unbundle      apply one or more changegroup files
   update        update working directory (or switch revisions)
   verify        verify the integrity of the repository
   version       output version and copyright information
  
  additional help topics:
  
   config        Configuration Files
   dates         Date Formats
   diffs         Diff Formats
   environment   Environment Variables
   extensions    Using Additional Features
   filesets      Specifying File Sets
   glossary      Glossary
   hgignore      Syntax for Mercurial Ignore Files
   hgweb         Configuring hgweb
   internals     Technical implementation topics
   merge-tools   Merge Tools
   multirevs     Specifying Multiple Revisions
   patterns      File Name Patterns
   phases        Working with Phases
   revisions     Specifying Single Revisions
   revsets       Specifying Revision Sets
   scripting     Using Mercurial from scripts and automation
   subrepos      Subrepositories
   templating    Template Usage
   urls          URL Paths
  
  (use 'hg help -v' to show built-in aliases and global options)



  $ hg --help
  Mercurial Distributed SCM
  
  list of commands:
  
   add           add the specified files on the next commit
   addremove     add all new files, delete all missing files
   annotate      show changeset information by line for each file
   archive       create an unversioned archive of a repository revision
   backout       reverse effect of earlier changeset
   bisect        subdivision search of changesets
   bookmarks     create a new bookmark or list existing bookmarks
   branch        set or show the current branch name
   branches      list repository named branches
   bundle        create a changegroup file
   cat           output the current or given revision of files
   clone         make a copy of an existing repository
   commit        commit the specified files or all outstanding changes
   config        show combined config settings from all hgrc files
   copy          mark files as copied for the next commit
   diff          diff repository (or selected files)
   export        dump the header and diffs for one or more changesets
   files         list tracked files
   forget        forget the specified files on the next commit
   graft         copy changes from other branches onto the current branch
   grep          search revision history for a pattern in specified files
   heads         show branch heads
   help          show help for a given topic or a help overview
   identify      identify the working directory or specified revision
   import        import an ordered set of patches
   incoming      show new changesets found in source
   init          create a new repository in the given directory
   log           show revision history of entire repository or files
   manifest      output the current or given revision of the project manifest
   merge         merge another revision into working directory
   outgoing      show changesets not found in the destination
   paths         show aliases for remote repositories
   phase         set or show the current phase name
   pull          pull changes from the specified source
   push          push changes to the specified destination
   recover       roll back an interrupted transaction
   remove        remove the specified files on the next commit
   rename        rename files; equivalent of copy + remove
   resolve       redo merges or set/view the merge status of files
   revert        restore files to their checkout state
   root          print the root (top) of the current working directory
   serve         start stand-alone webserver
   status        show changed files in the working directory
   summary       summarize working directory state
   tag           add one or more tags for the current or given revision
   tags          list repository tags
   unbundle      apply one or more changegroup files
   update        update working directory (or switch revisions)
   verify        verify the integrity of the repository
   version       output version and copyright information
  
  additional help topics:
  
   config        Configuration Files
   dates         Date Formats
   diffs         Diff Formats
   environment   Environment Variables
   extensions    Using Additional Features
   filesets      Specifying File Sets
   glossary      Glossary
   hgignore      Syntax for Mercurial Ignore Files
   hgweb         Configuring hgweb
   internals     Technical implementation topics
   merge-tools   Merge Tools
   multirevs     Specifying Multiple Revisions
   patterns      File Name Patterns
   phases        Working with Phases
   revisions     Specifying Single Revisions
   revsets       Specifying Revision Sets
   scripting     Using Mercurial from scripts and automation
   subrepos      Subrepositories
   templating    Template Usage
   urls          URL Paths
  
  (use 'hg help -v' to show built-in aliases and global options)

Not tested: --debugger