[PATCH] show value requirement and multiple occurrence of option in online help

[Matt Mackall]

On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 20:10 +0900, FUJIWARA Katsunori wrote:
> # HG changeset patch
> # User FUJIWARA Katsunori <foozy at lares.dti.ne.jp>
> # Date 1274007852 -32400
> # Node ID 46ffed62714f9396e658c822b13da1062cf350e3
> # Parent  6e65b451b62e6b5bf57e5df34e56214c78e762d6
> show value requirement and multiple occurrence of option in online help
> 
> this helps users to know what kind of option is:
> 
>   - no value is required(flag option)
>   - value is required
>   - value is required, multiple occurrences of this option are additive
> 
> each kinds are shown as below:
> 
>   -f --force          force push
>   -e --ssh VALUE      specify ssh command to use
>   -r --rev VALUE [+]  a specific revision up to which you would like to push

> +    if multioccur:
> +        msg = _("\n[+] multiple occurrences of this option are additive")

I don't know if they're always "additive".

> + -r --rev VALUE          import up to target revision REV

This is a little sad. We have VALUE on the left and REV on the right and
in the summary. Seems like we should add an optional fourth element to
our option tuple.

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