Mercurial Documentation

[Martin Geisler]

Fabian Kreutz <fabian.kreutz at qvantel.com> writes:

> 1. The help text for the churn extension could mention "hg help
> templating"

What do people think of this text:

diff --git a/hgext/churn.py b/hgext/churn.py
--- a/hgext/churn.py
+++ b/hgext/churn.py
@@ -120,6 +120,10 @@
       # display count of lines changed in every year
       hg churn -f '%Y' -s
 
+    Please see 'hg help templates' for a full list of template
+    keywords. See 'man strftime' or the Python time.strftime
+    documentation for a list of recognized date format directives.
+
     It is possible to map alternate email addresses to a main address
     by providing a file using the following format::


> 2. Some help texts (e.g. of extension bugzilla and color) are not
> indented like the others

Actually they are: those extensions provide a module docstring which is
used when you write 'hg help bugzilla or 'hg help color'. These module
help strings are not indented like the strings for normal commands.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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