Try to improve help options text for basic commands

Greg Ward greg-hg at gerg.ca
Sun Nov 22 09:03:41 CST 2009


On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Martin Geisler <mg at lazybytes.net> wrote:
> I agree about "DAG" being too technical... I like "concepts" or perhaps
> "terminology" would work better? I think it would be easier to write the
> help topic first -- when we can see what it contains and decide on an
> appropriate name :-)

Well, as long as we're bikeshedding, I would say that "hg help
concepts" should explain the DAG and changesets in a couple of
paragraphs.  "hg help glossary" should be more dictionary like, giving
concise, accurate definitions of "repository", "head", "branch head",
"named branch", "changeset", etc.  Again, the text could be gleaned
from the wiki.

Greg


More information about the Mercurial-devel mailing list