[issue2009] 1.4.1: Do not display full HELP on unknown command
Jari Aalto
bugs at mercurial.selenic.com
Sun Jan 31 15:24:13 UTC 2010
New submission from Jari Aalto <jari.aalto at cante.net>:
Please change response to erroneous input. The "HELP" listing takes fair
number of lines to return to previous command that was under way.
Suggestion, display only brief message:
$ hg -m "update README"
Error: invalid command. See hg help.
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$ hg -m "update README"
hg: option -m not recognized
Mercurial Distributed SCM
basic commands:
add add the specified files on the next commit
annotate show changeset information by line for each file
clone make a copy of an existing repository
commit commit the specified files or all outstanding changes
diff diff repository (or selected files)
export dump the header and diffs for one or more changesets
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messages: 11548
nosy: jaalto
priority: wish
status: unread
title: 1.4.1: Do not display full HELP on unknown command
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