Python DVCS PEP - integrate info extension?

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Am Dienstag 20 Januar 2009 20:11:54 schrieb Matt Mackall:
> This translates as "I don't know about basic concepts like hgrc files
> yet". Adding more commands does not help here. Adding pointers in the
> pull docs that explain about defaults and where they're set would be
> much more generally useful.

Yes, I think that precisely hits the issue. 

Even very basic concepts should become clear to the average user while he uses 
Mercurial - and I'm quite sure that most people will simply start with just 
working the way they are used to from subversion, just adding hg pull, hg push 
and hg merge. 

As additional idea "hg help hgrc" could show the hgrc man page (or some other 
help on hgrc, but having info seperated gives the risk that parts get 
outdated, or that the cost of updating gets too high), and hg pull could give 
a pointer to that (In fact I think that all/most commands which use the paths 
definitions should give that info - or at least the basic commands). 

Best wishes, 
Arne
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