[PATCH 2 of 2 V2] status: add relative directory help text (issue3835)

Sean Farley sean at farley.io
Thu Mar 26 16:08:49 CDT 2015


Jordi GutiƩrrez Hermoso <jordigh at octave.org> writes:

> On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 11:14 -0700, Sean Farley wrote:
>> # HG changeset patch
>> # User Yung-Jin (Joey) Hu <yungjinhu at gmail.com>
>> # Date 1426736402 25200
>> #      Wed Mar 18 20:40:02 2015 -0700
>> # Node ID 9f32b7fd438a6ed71442e1f2dcbb93d2f3a0b063
>> # Parent  3769372acb363c945b444a89dbb510b1c49fa7af
>> status: add relative directory help text (issue3835)
> [snip]
>> +      - show changes in the working directory relative to the
>> +        current directory (see filesets for more information)::
>
> This should probably be "see `:hg: help filesets`"... except that I
> find no explanation of this sorcery there. Instead, the explanation
> seems to be in `hg help patterns`. Well, at least a mention that re:
> activates regexp syntax, but I still consider it sorcery that this
> activate paths relative to the cwd.

I believe mpm changed that in-flight based on his previous message to
this patch.


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