[PATCH] help: move topic "files" from /doc/hg.1.txt to /mercurial/help/ (issue2760)

[Kevin Bullock]

On Apr 28, 2011, at 11:32 AM, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:

> This might be a bit far-fetched: but - if possible - I would prefer if
> we could reserve the name "files" for something else and not consume the
> name "files" for this specific help topic here.
> 
> Imagine there would be a new 'files' command in the future: "hg files"
> (we already have 'hg branches', 'hg tags', etc. and mercurial is about
> tracking files...).

Umm, `hg manifest`?

> Getting help about that hypothetical files command would be "hg help
> files". If we take that for a help topic *now*, we would have to rename
> it later, invalidating URLs to that help topic.
> 
> (for a hypothetical files command candidate see [1])
> 
> [1] https://bitbucket.org/abuehl/hgext-cifiles


What does cifiles do in contradistinction to `manifest`?

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Kevin R. Bullock