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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.)

  $ cat >> fakepager.py <<EOF
  > import sys
  > for line in sys.stdin:
  >     sys.stdout.write('paged! %r\n' % line)
  > EOF

Enable ui.formatted because pager won't fire without it, and set up
pager and tell it to use our fake pager that lets us see when the
pager was running.
  $ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<EOF
  > [ui]
  > formatted = yes
  > [extensions]
  > pager=
  > [pager]
  > pager = python $TESTTMP/fakepager.py
  > EOF

  $ hg init repo
  $ cd repo
  $ echo a >> a
  $ hg add a
  $ hg ci -m 'add a'
  $ for x in `python $TESTDIR/seq.py 1 10`; do
  >   echo a $x >> a
  >   hg ci -m "modify a $x"
  > done

By default diff and log are paged, but summary is not:

  $ hg diff -c 2 --pager=yes
  paged! 'diff -r f4be7687d414 -r bce265549556 a\n'
  paged! '--- a/a\tThu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! '+++ b/a\tThu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! '@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@\n'
  paged! ' a\n'
  paged! ' a 1\n'
  paged! '+a 2\n'

  $ hg log --limit 2
  paged! 'changeset:   10:46106edeeb38\n'
  paged! 'tag:         tip\n'
  paged! 'user:        test\n'
  paged! 'date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! 'summary:     modify a 10\n'
  paged! '\n'
  paged! 'changeset:   9:6dd8ea7dd621\n'
  paged! 'user:        test\n'
  paged! 'date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! 'summary:     modify a 9\n'
  paged! '\n'

  $ hg summary
  parent: 10:46106edeeb38 tip
   modify a 10
  branch: default
  commit: (clean)
  update: (current)
  phases: 11 draft

We can enable the pager on summary:

  $ hg --config pager.attend-summary=yes summary
  paged! 'parent: 10:46106edeeb38 tip\n'
  paged! ' modify a 10\n'
  paged! 'branch: default\n'
  paged! 'commit: (clean)\n'
  paged! 'update: (current)\n'
  paged! 'phases: 11 draft\n'

If we completely change the attend list that's respected:

  $ hg --config pager.attend-diff=no diff -c 2
  diff -r f4be7687d414 -r bce265549556 a
  --- a/a	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  +++ b/a	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  @@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
   a
   a 1
  +a 2

  $ hg --config pager.attend=summary diff -c 2
  diff -r f4be7687d414 -r bce265549556 a
  --- a/a	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  +++ b/a	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  @@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
   a
   a 1
  +a 2

If 'log' is in attend, then 'history' should also be paged:
  $ hg history --limit 2 --config pager.attend=log
  paged! 'changeset:   10:46106edeeb38\n'
  paged! 'tag:         tip\n'
  paged! 'user:        test\n'
  paged! 'date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! 'summary:     modify a 10\n'
  paged! '\n'
  paged! 'changeset:   9:6dd8ea7dd621\n'
  paged! 'user:        test\n'
  paged! 'date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! 'summary:     modify a 9\n'
  paged! '\n'

Possible bug: history is explicitly ignored in pager config, but
because log is in the attend list it still gets pager treatment.

  $ hg history --limit 2 --config pager.attend=log \
  >   --config pager.ignore=history
  paged! 'changeset:   10:46106edeeb38\n'
  paged! 'tag:         tip\n'
  paged! 'user:        test\n'
  paged! 'date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! 'summary:     modify a 10\n'
  paged! '\n'
  paged! 'changeset:   9:6dd8ea7dd621\n'
  paged! 'user:        test\n'
  paged! 'date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! 'summary:     modify a 9\n'
  paged! '\n'

Possible bug: history is explicitly marked as attend-history=no, but
it doesn't fail to get paged because log is still in the attend list.

  $ hg history --limit 2 --config pager.attend-history=no
  paged! 'changeset:   10:46106edeeb38\n'
  paged! 'tag:         tip\n'
  paged! 'user:        test\n'
  paged! 'date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! 'summary:     modify a 10\n'
  paged! '\n'
  paged! 'changeset:   9:6dd8ea7dd621\n'
  paged! 'user:        test\n'
  paged! 'date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! 'summary:     modify a 9\n'
  paged! '\n'

Possible bug: disabling pager for log but enabling it for history
doesn't result in history being paged.

  $ hg history --limit 2 --config pager.attend-log=no \
  > --config pager.attend-history=yes
  changeset:   10:46106edeeb38
  tag:         tip
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     modify a 10
  
  changeset:   9:6dd8ea7dd621
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     modify a 9
  

Pager with color enabled allows colors to come through by default,
even though stdout is no longer a tty.
  $ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<EOF
  > [extensions]
  > color=
  > [color]
  > mode = ansi
  > EOF
  $ hg log --limit 3
  paged! '\x1b[0;33mchangeset:   10:46106edeeb38\x1b[0m\n'
  paged! 'tag:         tip\n'
  paged! 'user:        test\n'
  paged! 'date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! 'summary:     modify a 10\n'
  paged! '\n'
  paged! '\x1b[0;33mchangeset:   9:6dd8ea7dd621\x1b[0m\n'
  paged! 'user:        test\n'
  paged! 'date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! 'summary:     modify a 9\n'
  paged! '\n'
  paged! '\x1b[0;33mchangeset:   8:cff05a6312fe\x1b[0m\n'
  paged! 'user:        test\n'
  paged! 'date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000\n'
  paged! 'summary:     modify a 8\n'
  paged! '\n'

Pager works with shell aliases.

  $ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<EOF
  > [alias]
  > echoa = !echo a
  > EOF

  $ hg echoa
  a
  $ hg --config pager.attend-echoa=yes echoa
  paged! 'a\n'

Pager works with hg aliases including environment variables.

  $ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<'EOF'
  > [alias]
  > printa = log -T "$A\n" -r 0
  > EOF

  $ A=1 hg --config pager.attend-printa=yes printa
  paged! '1\n'
  $ A=2 hg --config pager.attend-printa=yes printa
  paged! '2\n'

Pager should not override the exit code of other commands

  $ cat >> $TESTTMP/fortytwo.py <<'EOF'
  > from mercurial import cmdutil, commands
  > cmdtable = {}
  > command = cmdutil.command(cmdtable)
  > @command('fortytwo', [], 'fortytwo', norepo=True)
  > def fortytwo(ui, *opts):
  >     ui.write('42\n')
  >     return 42
  > EOF

  $ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<'EOF'
  > [extensions]
  > fortytwo = $TESTTMP/fortytwo.py
  > EOF

  $ hg fortytwo --pager=on
  paged! '42\n'
  [42]