On Fri, 2018-01-05 at 13:42 -0500, Richard Hipp wrote:
> On 1/5/18, Matt Welland <m...@kiatoa.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Older versions of fossil would provide some very helpful
> > information
> > from "fossil help set":
> > 
> > gmerge-command   A graphical merge conflict resolver command
> > operating
> >                  on four files.
> >               Ex: kdiff3 "%baseline" "%original" "%merge" -o
> > "%output"
> >               Ex: xxdiff "%original" "%baseline" "%merge" -M
> > "%output"
> >               Ex: meld "%baseline" "%original" "%merge" "%output"
> > 
> > Having to start up a UI and dig around for these example merge
> > commands
> > is a bit annoying.
> The "fossil help gmerge-command" command should show you want you
> want, does it not?  I did split off the pages and pages of details
> for
> all settings out of the "fossil help settings" command into separate
> "help" pages for each setting.  But I thought that was a feature.  Do
> you disagree?  Or am I misunderstanding your problem?
> 
> Maybe I just need to improve the "fossil help setting" output to
> provide some clue about how to get help on individual settings?
> 
I had tried "fossil help set gmerge" which is similar to how other
tools handle complicated multi-layered help. It didn't occur to me to
try "fossil help gmerge" as gmerge is not a command:

fossil gmerge
fossil: unknown command: gmerge
fossil: use "help" for more information
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