[PATCH] Correct example concerning "hg purge" alias in "hgrc.5"
Dr Rainer Woitok
rainer.woitok at gmail.com
Fri Feb 17 11:58:57 UTC 2017
# HG changeset patch
# User Rainer Woitok <Rainer.Woitok at Gmail.Com>
# Date 1487326116 -3600
# Parent 56ed3565559ad36d11eaf58697c2416bf5bc1f2b
doc: correct example concerning "hg purge" alias in man page "hgrc.5"
The "hg purge" alias as currently described in "hgrc.5" issues a possibly
confusing error message like
rm: missing operand
Try 'rm --help' for more information.
if no files are to be purged at all.
This patch slightly modifies the example by adding a "-f" option to the
"rm" command.
diff --git a/mercurial/help/config.txt b/mercurial/help/config.txt
--- a/mercurial/help/config.txt
+++ b/mercurial/help/config.txt
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@
will let you do ``hg echo foo`` to have ``foo`` printed in your
terminal. A better example might be::
- purge = !$HG status --no-status --unknown -0 re: | xargs -0 rm
+ purge = !$HG status --no-status --unknown -0 re: | xargs -0 rm -f
which will make ``hg purge`` delete all unknown files in the
repository in the same manner as the purge extension.
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