[PATCH] expand and clarify help for update

[Matt Mackall]

On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 19:50 +0100, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> > So here's a simple proposal: add a -v switch to help topics to allow
> > showing otherwise omitted sections of the help. Perhaps lines in help
> > prefixed with '%' or some other character get removed without -v and
> > displayed (without %) with -v.
> 
> I was thinking maybe we could insert a line with '---' on it and split 
> on that. Having to insert a character on each line seems rather tedious.

It does. Perhaps we could invert it. My theory is that we might want to
show more or less description and more or less example text. Having two
sections of examples would look awkward. We could also use start and end
markers, but that's more complicated.

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