Try to improve help options text for basic commands

Greg Ward greg-hg at gerg.ca
Sat Nov 21 19:01:47 CST 2009


On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Faheem Mitha <faheem at email.unc.edu> wrote:
> +1 on saying something about DAGs. I think including something about
> the DAG in the help would be a very good idea. Set up some
> terminology, then it can be referenced in the rest of the help. This
> has the big advantage of being precise, then we won't need to have
> arguments about whether the wording is good enough.
>
> hg help DAG

Good idea, but saying "DAG" is a bit too technical IMHO.  (Not
everyone studied CS in university.)  What about "hg help concepts",
since the graph of changesets is the core concept behind Mercurial?
Lift some text from the wiki or Bryan's book, trim out excess words,
and ta-da.

Greg


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