[PATCH 4 of 7 v2] histedit: explain basics of histedit commands

Augie Fackler raf at durin42.com
Tue Jan 5 16:52:05 UTC 2016


On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 01:15:00PM -0600, timeless wrote:
> # HG changeset patch
> # User timeless <timeless at mozdev.org>
> # Date 1450826513 0
> #      Tue Dec 22 23:21:53 2015 +0000
> # Node ID 7cc457bca6694793584a06c612e9b076129dce95
> # Parent  0eb27264c430c5151c98262d181d160c60e80177
> histedit: explain basics of histedit commands

It's a bit of a bummer to list the commands inline here hard-coded,
because now it duplicates a bunch of text and if someone adds a rule
in a third-party extension we're going to have a bad time. Can we do
this at least somewhat dynamically somehow?

>
> diff --git a/hgext/histedit.py b/hgext/histedit.py
> --- a/hgext/histedit.py
> +++ b/hgext/histedit.py
> @@ -807,8 +807,21 @@
>  def histedit(ui, repo, *freeargs, **opts):
>      """interactively edit changeset history
>
> -    This command edits changesets between an ANCESTOR and the parent of
> -    the working directory.
> +    This command lets you edit a linear series of changesets (up to
> +    and including the working directory, which should be clean).
> +    You can::
> +
> +    - `pick` to [re]order a changeset
> +
> +    - `drop` to omit changeset
> +
> +    - `mess` to reword the changeset commit message
> +
> +    - `fold` to combine it with the preceding changeset
> +
> +    - `roll` like fold, but discarding this commit's description
> +
> +    - `edit` to edit this changeset
>
>      The value from the "histedit.defaultrev" config option is used as a
>      revset to select the base revision when ANCESTOR is not specified.
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