[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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