[PATCH] expand and clarify help for update

Adrian Buehlmann adrian at cadifra.com
Thu Oct 30 10:31:04 UTC 2008


On 30.10.2008 09:34, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> Adrian Buehlmann <adrian <at> cadifra.com> writes:
>> # HG changeset patch
>> # User Adrian Buehlmann <adrian <at> cadifra.com>
>> # Date 1225322906 -3600
>> # Node ID 94bae0c425ba312c560c7cbe889554ab5bfbbd30
>> # Parent  1493d1e05ca3034a104afca2f49aec2783be3df6
>> expand and clarify help for update
> 
> Like Giorgios, I think it's nice what you're trying to do here, but I don't
> think making it this long is very effective. Trying to describe every little
> corner case of update's behavior just means people won't read it all or get
> scared of using it. Let's instead give people an idea of what the purpose is
> (and what other commands could be used instead) and what the options are.

As a side note, you might want to shorten things like 'hg help clone' then.

Regards,

Adrian



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