[PATCH V2] help: hide command line options marked as "advanced"

[Pierre-Yves David]

On 11/02/2016 12:49 AM, Jun Wu wrote:
> Excerpts from Pierre-Yves David's message of 2016-11-02 00:41:03 +0100:
>>
>> On 11/01/2016 04:08 PM, Jun Wu wrote:
>>> # HG changeset patch
>>> # User Jun Wu <quark at fb.com>
>>> # Date 1478011845 0
>>> #      Tue Nov 01 14:50:45 2016 +0000
>>> # Node ID 058074cf24ce30ee0bc6d6a4d91fbe35631f8e8e
>>> # Parent  264f00b3e5f045ac5b58d79e2a3976585f4e7739
>>> # Available At https://bitbucket.org/quark-zju/hg-draft
>>> #              hg pull https://bitbucket.org/quark-zju/hg-draft  -r 058074cf24ce
>>> help: hide command line options marked as "advanced"
>>>
>>> Previously, we have keywords like "(DEPRECATED)" and "(EXPERIMENTAL)" to
>>> hide command line options in non-verbose help output.
>>>
>>> However, sometimes an option is neither deprecated nor experimental. It's
>>> well-tested and working, but just not designed to average users. This patch
>>> adds a keyword "(ADVANCED)" to fit in such use cases.
>>>
>>> Thanks rom1dep for the suggestion of the word "advanced".
>>
>> Do we have any candidate for this in core ?
>
> It should be better than "(VERBOSE)".

I'm very confused by this reply. My question is

"Do we currently have any flag in core that could benefit from this new 
feature?"

>
>> We probably need to hint the fact we have more to show here. Having
>> verbose section display a note about it, we should have the same here.
>
> It currently displays the same way as other keywords:
> "(some details hidden, use --verbose to show complete help)".
> That's included in the .t change below.
>
> Do you mean a different hint text? I don't think it's that useful.

Ha, I someone missed that line in the test. Sorry. I don't think we need 
anything other hint.

-- 
Pierre-Yves David