D2668: rebase: introduce support for automatically rebasing orphan changes
quark (Jun Wu)
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Mon Apr 9 19:29:06 EDT 2018
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In https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2668#51423, @durin42 wrote:
> I like the way `--auto` (or some other name) is discoverable in `hg help rebase`. Losing that inside the long-form prose of the help text (which is the only place I can think of to document a magic rebase-specific revset?) seems like a bummer to me...
We recently had some internal discussion about discovery. @mbthomas mentioned that help text is a way of discovery and help text is not only about command line flags. i.e. there could be some examples in help text. I think that might be actually better not only because it keeps CLI clean, but also because a flag has limited (half of a line) space to explain things while an example could have multi-line explanation.
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