help: backout f3c4edfd35e1 (mark boolean flags with [no-] in help) for now
The ability to negate any boolean flags itself is great, but I think we are not
ready to expose the help side of it yet.
First, while there exist a handful of such flags whose default value can be
changed (eg: git diff, patchwork confirmation), there is only a few of them. The
users who benefit the most from this change are alias users and large
installation that can deploy extension to change behavior (eg: facebook
tweakdefault). So the majority of user who will be affected by a large change
to command help that is not yet relevant to them. (I expect this to become
relevant when ui.progressive start to exists).
Below is an example of the impact of the new help on 'hg help diff':
-r --rev REV [+] revision
-c --change REV change made by revision
-a --[no-]text treat all files as text
-g --[no-]git use git extended diff format
--[no-]nodates omit dates from diff headers
--[no-]noprefix omit a/ and b/ prefixes from filenames
-p --[no-]show-function show which function each change is in
--[no-]reverse produce a diff that undoes the changes
-w --[no-]ignore-all-space ignore white space when comparing lines
-b --[no-]ignore-space-change ignore changes in the amount of white space
-B --[no-]ignore-blank-lines ignore changes whose lines are all blank
-U --unified NUM number of lines of context to show
--[no-]stat output diffstat-style summary of changes
--root DIR produce diffs relative to subdirectory
-I --include PATTERN [+] include names matching the given patterns
-X --exclude PATTERN [+] exclude names matching the given patterns
-S --[no-]subrepos recurse into subrepositories
Another issue with the current state of help, the default value for the
flag is not conveyed to the user. For example in the 'backout' help, there is
no real distinction between "--[no-]backup" (default to True) and "--[no-]keep"
(default) to False:
--[no-]backup no backups
--[no-]keep do not modify working directory during strip
In addition, I've discussed with Augie Fackler and the last batch of the work on
this have burned him out quite some. Therefore he is not intending to perform
any more work on this topic. Quoting him, he would rather see the help part
backed out than spending more time on it.
I do not think we are ready to expose this to users in 4.0 (freeze in a week),
especially because we cannot expect quick improvement on these aspect as this
topic no longer have an owner. We should be able to reintroduce that change in
the future when someone get back on it and the main issues are solves:
* Introduction of ui.progressive makes it relevant for a majority of user,
* Current default value are efficiently conveyed to the user.
(In addition, the excerpt from diff help show that we still have some issue with
some negative option like '--nodates' so further improvement are probably
welcome there.)
Create configuration
$ echo "[ui]" >> $HGRCPATH
$ echo "interactive=true" >> $HGRCPATH
help record (no record)
$ hg help record
record extension - commands to interactively select changes for
commit/qrefresh (DEPRECATED)
(use 'hg help extensions' for information on enabling extensions)
help qrecord (no record)
$ hg help qrecord
'qrecord' is provided by the following extension:
record commands to interactively select changes for commit/qrefresh
(DEPRECATED)
(use 'hg help extensions' for information on enabling extensions)
$ echo "[extensions]" >> $HGRCPATH
$ echo "record=" >> $HGRCPATH
help record (record)
$ hg help record
hg record [OPTION]... [FILE]...
interactively select changes to commit
If a list of files is omitted, all changes reported by 'hg status' will be
candidates for recording.
See 'hg help dates' for a list of formats valid for -d/--date.
You will be prompted for whether to record changes to each modified file,
and for files with multiple changes, for each change to use. For each
query, the following responses are possible:
y - record this change
n - skip this change
e - edit this change manually
s - skip remaining changes to this file
f - record remaining changes to this file
d - done, skip remaining changes and files
a - record all changes to all remaining files
q - quit, recording no changes
? - display help
This command is not available when committing a merge.
(use 'hg help -e record' to show help for the record extension)
options ([+] can be repeated):
-A --addremove mark new/missing files as added/removed before
committing
--close-branch mark a branch head as closed
--amend amend the parent of the working directory
-s --secret use the secret phase for committing
-e --edit invoke editor on commit messages
-I --include PATTERN [+] include names matching the given patterns
-X --exclude PATTERN [+] exclude names matching the given patterns
-m --message TEXT use text as commit message
-l --logfile FILE read commit message from file
-d --date DATE record the specified date as commit date
-u --user USER record the specified user as committer
-S --subrepos recurse into subrepositories
-w --ignore-all-space ignore white space when comparing lines
-b --ignore-space-change ignore changes in the amount of white space
-B --ignore-blank-lines ignore changes whose lines are all blank
(some details hidden, use --verbose to show complete help)
help (no mq, so no qrecord)
$ hg help qrecord
hg qrecord [OPTION]... PATCH [FILE]...
interactively record a new patch
See 'hg help qnew' & 'hg help record' for more information and usage.
(some details hidden, use --verbose to show complete help)
$ hg init a
qrecord (mq not present)
$ hg -R a qrecord
hg qrecord: invalid arguments
hg qrecord [OPTION]... PATCH [FILE]...
interactively record a new patch
(use 'hg qrecord -h' to show more help)
[255]
qrecord patch (mq not present)
$ hg -R a qrecord patch
abort: 'mq' extension not loaded
[255]
help (bad mq)
$ echo "mq=nonexistent" >> $HGRCPATH
$ hg help qrecord
*** failed to import extension mq from nonexistent: [Errno *] * (glob)
hg qrecord [OPTION]... PATCH [FILE]...
interactively record a new patch
See 'hg help qnew' & 'hg help record' for more information and usage.
(some details hidden, use --verbose to show complete help)
help (mq present)
$ sed 's/mq=nonexistent/mq=/' $HGRCPATH > hgrc.tmp
$ mv hgrc.tmp $HGRCPATH
$ hg help qrecord
hg qrecord [OPTION]... PATCH [FILE]...
interactively record a new patch
See 'hg help qnew' & 'hg help record' for more information and usage.
options ([+] can be repeated):
-e --edit invoke editor on commit messages
-g --git use git extended diff format
-U --currentuser add "From: <current user>" to patch
-u --user USER add "From: <USER>" to patch
-D --currentdate add "Date: <current date>" to patch
-d --date DATE add "Date: <DATE>" to patch
-I --include PATTERN [+] include names matching the given patterns
-X --exclude PATTERN [+] exclude names matching the given patterns
-m --message TEXT use text as commit message
-l --logfile FILE read commit message from file
-w --ignore-all-space ignore white space when comparing lines
-b --ignore-space-change ignore changes in the amount of white space
-B --ignore-blank-lines ignore changes whose lines are all blank
--mq operate on patch repository
(some details hidden, use --verbose to show complete help)
$ cd a
Base commit
$ cat > 1.txt <<EOF
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
> EOF
$ cat > 2.txt <<EOF
> a
> b
> c
> d
> e
> f
> EOF
$ mkdir dir
$ cat > dir/a.txt <<EOF
> hello world
>
> someone
> up
> there
> loves
> me
> EOF
$ hg add 1.txt 2.txt dir/a.txt
$ hg commit -m 'initial checkin'
Changing files
$ sed -e 's/2/2 2/;s/4/4 4/' 1.txt > 1.txt.new
$ sed -e 's/b/b b/' 2.txt > 2.txt.new
$ sed -e 's/hello world/hello world!/' dir/a.txt > dir/a.txt.new
$ mv -f 1.txt.new 1.txt
$ mv -f 2.txt.new 2.txt
$ mv -f dir/a.txt.new dir/a.txt
Whole diff
$ hg diff --nodates
diff -r 1057167b20ef 1.txt
--- a/1.txt
+++ b/1.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
1
-2
+2 2
3
-4
+4 4
5
diff -r 1057167b20ef 2.txt
--- a/2.txt
+++ b/2.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
a
-b
+b b
c
d
e
diff -r 1057167b20ef dir/a.txt
--- a/dir/a.txt
+++ b/dir/a.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-hello world
+hello world!
someone
up
qrecord with bad patch name, should abort before prompting
$ hg qrecord .hg
abort: patch name cannot begin with ".hg"
[255]
qrecord a.patch
$ hg qrecord -d '0 0' -m aaa a.patch <<EOF
> y
> y
> n
> y
> y
> n
> EOF
diff --git a/1.txt b/1.txt
2 hunks, 2 lines changed
examine changes to '1.txt'? [Ynesfdaq?] y
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
1
-2
+2 2
3
record change 1/4 to '1.txt'? [Ynesfdaq?] y
@@ -3,3 +3,3 @@
3
-4
+4 4
5
record change 2/4 to '1.txt'? [Ynesfdaq?] n
diff --git a/2.txt b/2.txt
1 hunks, 1 lines changed
examine changes to '2.txt'? [Ynesfdaq?] y
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
a
-b
+b b
c
d
e
record change 3/4 to '2.txt'? [Ynesfdaq?] y
diff --git a/dir/a.txt b/dir/a.txt
1 hunks, 1 lines changed
examine changes to 'dir/a.txt'? [Ynesfdaq?] n
After qrecord a.patch 'tip'"
$ hg tip -p
changeset: 1:5d1ca63427ee
tag: a.patch
tag: qbase
tag: qtip
tag: tip
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: aaa
diff -r 1057167b20ef -r 5d1ca63427ee 1.txt
--- a/1.txt Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/1.txt Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
1
-2
+2 2
3
4
5
diff -r 1057167b20ef -r 5d1ca63427ee 2.txt
--- a/2.txt Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/2.txt Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
a
-b
+b b
c
d
e
After qrecord a.patch 'diff'"
$ hg diff --nodates
diff -r 5d1ca63427ee 1.txt
--- a/1.txt
+++ b/1.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
1
2 2
3
-4
+4 4
5
diff -r 5d1ca63427ee dir/a.txt
--- a/dir/a.txt
+++ b/dir/a.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-hello world
+hello world!
someone
up
qrecord b.patch
$ hg qrecord -d '0 0' -m bbb b.patch <<EOF
> y
> y
> y
> y
> EOF
diff --git a/1.txt b/1.txt
1 hunks, 1 lines changed
examine changes to '1.txt'? [Ynesfdaq?] y
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
1
2 2
3
-4
+4 4
5
record change 1/2 to '1.txt'? [Ynesfdaq?] y
diff --git a/dir/a.txt b/dir/a.txt
1 hunks, 1 lines changed
examine changes to 'dir/a.txt'? [Ynesfdaq?] y
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-hello world
+hello world!
someone
up
record change 2/2 to 'dir/a.txt'? [Ynesfdaq?] y
After qrecord b.patch 'tip'
$ hg tip -p
changeset: 2:b056198bf878
tag: b.patch
tag: qtip
tag: tip
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: bbb
diff -r 5d1ca63427ee -r b056198bf878 1.txt
--- a/1.txt Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/1.txt Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
1
2 2
3
-4
+4 4
5
diff -r 5d1ca63427ee -r b056198bf878 dir/a.txt
--- a/dir/a.txt Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/dir/a.txt Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-hello world
+hello world!
someone
up
After qrecord b.patch 'diff'
$ hg diff --nodates
$ cd ..