[PATCH] expand and clarify help for update

[Paul Moore]

2008/10/30 Paul R <paul.r.ml at gmail.com>:
>
> Adrian> Ok. I'll drop working on this. Please ignore that patch.
>
> I consider your proposed version to be overall better than the
> previous one, it reads better and contain more information (inluding
> the very important reference to 'hg update null'). I personnaly like
> to have rich documentation in my terminal, and don't mind to pipe very
> long things in a pager. But some other people like things to be short,
> so we must find an agreement on that. As a naive solution, I would
> invite them to propose some replacement for paragraphs they find too
> long. The only constraint is to keep the same amount of useful
> information. What do others think ?

One other possibility might be to have "short" and "long" help, so hg
help update would be as now, and hg help --long update would be a
longer, more detailed version.

And in case it's not clear, I am also in favour of having as much help
as possible available from the hg command itself. I'd also like to see
more of the "special help topics" (and I know that means I should
probably write some patches to add some!)

Paul.