[PATCH] keyword: improve help for kwfiles
timeless
timeless at gmail.com
Sun Jun 28 06:50:09 CDT 2009
I wrote:
> oh gah. fail. i think you want file paths, perhaps. can you provide a
> more detailed explanation?
christian wrote:
> Yes, the docs for the extension (full to the brim of more pidgin
> English), available canonically via
>
> $ hg help keyword
yeah, i don't want that, i can type it as much as the next person, i
want an explanation, not random strings of words.
>> is it possible to match this/file and not that/file ?
>
> Yes.
> *K*eyword expansion candidate?
>
> (not *K*ellogg's *K*orn Flakes ;-) )
>
> To someone already familiar with the flags of "hg status" not
> that difficult a guess, I thought.
ah, but see, i don't have to guess.
hg help status has:
The codes used to show the status of files are:
M = modified
A = added
R = removed
C = clean
! = missing (deleted by non-hg command, but still tracked)
? = not tracked
I = ignored
= origin of the previous file listed as A (added)
> But something analogous to the status help would be:
>
> With -a/--all and -v/--verbose the codes used to show the status
> of files are:
> K = keyword expansion candidate
> I = ignored
yes please.
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