[PATCH 2 of 9] help: let 'hg help debug' show the list of secret debug commands

Chris Jerdonek chris.jerdonek at gmail.com
Thu Mar 20 02:45:59 CDT 2014


On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 19:58 -0700, Siddharth Agarwal wrote:
>> On 03/18/2014 04:33 PM, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
>> > # HG changeset patch
>> > # User Mads Kiilerich <madski at unity3d.com>
>> > # Date 1394896444 -3600
>> > #      Sat Mar 15 16:14:04 2014 +0100
>> > # Node ID ab2a99f9f3396fb705bd621fd5b2de04783ac101
>> > # Parent  ffaeeb8d43872aca4c329937b793c6b4919ce192
>> > help: let 'hg help debug' show the list of secret debug commands
>> >
>> > The names of the debug commands are not easy to remember and they are not easy
>> > to find.
>>
>> hg help --debug?
>
> We should probably arrange that 'hg help -k' finds them.
>
> And perhaps add a note about 'help -k' to the short help so people stop
> being surprised that it exists.

FYI, I created a bug in the tracker for this issue a few months ago (I
believe it is the same issue):

http://bz.selenic.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4132

It might be worth mentioning the bug number in the patch.  If anything
else needs to be decided, the bug can also be used for discussion.

--Chris


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