On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 3:58 AM, Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woi...@gmail.com> wrote: > # HG changeset patch > # User Rainer Woitok <rainer.woi...@gmail.com> > # Date 1487326116 -3600 > # Parent 56ed3565559ad36d11eaf58697c2416bf5bc1f2b > doc: correct example concerning "hg purge" alias in man page "hgrc.5" > > The "hg purge" alias as currently described in "hgrc.5" issues a possibly > confusing error message like > > rm: missing operand > Try 'rm --help' for more information. > > if no files are to be purged at all. > > This patch slightly modifies the example by adding a "-f" option to the > "rm" command. > > diff --git a/mercurial/help/config.txt b/mercurial/help/config.txt > --- a/mercurial/help/config.txt > +++ b/mercurial/help/config.txt > @@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ > will let you do ``hg echo foo`` to have ``foo`` printed in your > terminal. A better example might be:: > > - purge = !$HG status --no-status --unknown -0 re: | xargs -0 rm > + purge = !$HG status --no-status --unknown -0 re: | xargs -0 rm -f
"xargs -r" would have shown the intent better, but that's apparently a GNU extension, so your patch is probably the best we can do in a portable way. Queued, thanks. > > which will make ``hg purge`` delete all unknown files in the > repository in the same manner as the purge extension. > _______________________________________________ > Mercurial-devel mailing list > Mercurial-devel@mercurial-scm.org > https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial-devel _______________________________________________ Mercurial-devel mailing list Mercurial-devel@mercurial-scm.org https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial-devel