[PATCH 0 of 2] Verbose help

[Martin Geisler]

Greg Ward <greg-hg at gerg.ca> writes:

> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Martin Geisler <mg at lazybytes.net> wrote:
>> These patches add support for verbose help as proposed here:
>>
>>  http://markmail.org/message/hz7znbi7pzppzco4
>>
>> Please see the commit message in the first patch and let me know if
>> this is what we want.
>
> Cool!
>
> I notice that your examples and tests speak of debug-level help, but
> your patch to commands.py only supports "verbose" help.  Shouldn't
> there be some "if ui.debug then keep = ['verbose', 'debug']" logic?

You're right, the test speaks of it... But it felt a bit weird that one
would specify

  hg --debug help log

to get detailed help.

Even the idea of verbose help is a bit odd -- perhaps we should turn it
upside down? So we enable all the detailed help and examples by default,
but if one does

  hg --expert help log

then we hide the help meant for beginners. Experts can then set
ui.expert = True in their hgrc file. Just a thought...?

-- 
Martin Geisler

VIFF (Virtual Ideal Functionality Framework) brings easy and efficient
SMPC (Secure Multiparty Computation) to Python. See: http://viff.dk/.
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