--- a/mercurial/help/phases.txt Fri Jan 27 13:12:56 2012 -0600
+++ b/mercurial/help/phases.txt Fri Jan 27 18:43:41 2012 -0600
@@ -58,4 +58,23 @@
Servers running older versions of Mercurial are treated as
publishing.
-See :hg:`help phase` for information on manually manipulating phases.
+Examples
+--------
+
+ - list changesets in draft or secret phase::
+
+ hg log -r "not public()"
+
+ - change all secret changesets to draft::
+
+ hg phase --draft "secret()"
+
+ - forcibly move the current changeset and descendants from public to draft::
+
+ hg phase --force --draft .
+
+ - show a list of changeset revision and phase::
+
+ hg log --template "{rev} {phase}\n"
+
+See :hg:`help phase` for more information on manually manipulating phases.