[issue197] make default output of "hg help" useful

Colin McMillen mcmillen at cs.cmu.edu
Tue Apr 4 17:35:14 UTC 2006


> Over lunch with a friend, he mentioned that the default output of "hg help" is
> not very helpful.  I took a look, and sure enough I was astounded.  It prints 46
> lines of output, including a line for just about every command.
> 
> This is really not a good thing to be presented with if you're new to using
> Mercurial, or probably under any circumstances short of asking for a list of all
> commands.

Strong +1 to this one; I'm tired of typing "hg help | less" :)

- Colin
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