Re: [fossil-users] About the help command

2015-05-08 Thread paul
Hi Andy, On 08/05/15 23:34, Andy Bradford wrote: Thus said paul on Fri, 08 May 2015 21:17:36 +0100: OK, so if I do a merge with baseline, supply two UUID's so that I only merge the changes for one UUID, are you saying that cherrypick is a shortcut for that, because you only need to supp

Re: [fossil-users] About the help command

2015-05-08 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said paul on Fri, 08 May 2015 21:17:36 +0100: > OK, so if I do a merge with baseline, supply two UUID's so that I only > merge the changes for one UUID, are you saying that cherrypick is a > shortcut for that, because you only need to supply one UUID with > cherrypick? I see, you'

Re: [fossil-users] About the help command

2015-05-08 Thread paul
On 08/05/15 21:03, Andy Bradford wrote: Thus said paul on Fri, 08 May 2015 20:51:44 +0100: For example, what's the difference between merge with baseline and cherrypick? The documentation probably should explain that somewhere. When you merge, you merge in all changes leading up to tha

Re: [fossil-users] About the help command

2015-05-08 Thread j. van den hoff
On Fri, 08 May 2015 21:14:07 +0200, Abilio Marques wrote: Ohhh, I did use dbstat the other day (several times actually) while working with some binary files. But yeah, I know there is the -a list, plus the hidden list. But I'm still happy to know that almost everything I use is at hand,

Re: [fossil-users] About the help command

2015-05-08 Thread paul
On 08/05/15 21:03, Andy Bradford wrote: Thus said paul on Fri, 08 May 2015 20:51:44 +0100: For example, what's the difference between merge with baseline and cherrypick? The documentation probably should explain that somewhere. When you merge, you merge in all changes leading up to tha

Re: [fossil-users] About the help command

2015-05-08 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said paul on Fri, 08 May 2015 20:51:44 +0100: > For example, what's the difference between merge with baseline and > cherrypick? The documentation probably should explain that somewhere. When you merge, you merge in all changes leading up to that baseline (e.g. if you merge in a

Re: [fossil-users] About the help command

2015-05-08 Thread paul
On 08/05/15 20:14, Abilio Marques wrote: I believe there is room for improvements in the online documentation too. I want this email chain to be around that idea. If my memory serves me correctly, fossil help scrub isn't quite right ... It says that by default only passwords are removed, bu

Re: [fossil-users] About the help command

2015-05-08 Thread paul
On 08/05/15 19:29, Warren Young wrote: I believe sometimes you do understand a thing so much, that you end up forgetting the explanation. I think the situation with “merge” is that it’s supposed to just work when run in the obvious way. You just have to get over your anxiety over the correct

Re: [fossil-users] About the help command

2015-05-08 Thread Abilio Marques
Ohhh, I did use dbstat the other day (several times actually) while working with some binary files. But yeah, I know there is the -a list, plus the hidden list. But I'm still happy to know that almost everything I use is at hand, and that I don't need a cryptic combination or plainly wrong named co

Re: [fossil-users] About the help command

2015-05-08 Thread Warren Young
On May 7, 2015, at 9:23 PM, Abilio Marques wrote: > > One of the things I LOVE about fossil is the simplicity. No weird, > ultra-hidden cryptic commands that you would use once, perhaps twice in your > lifetime Oh, that’s not true. You may have never said “fossil help -a”, and if you have, I

Re: [fossil-users] About the help command

2015-05-08 Thread Stephan Beal
Very briefly (finger still hurts)... On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Kain Abel wrote: > > - introducing a new shortcut 'st' for status (svn compatibility and > overriding stash) > LOL! "st" used to be the short form of "status" until the "st"ash was added, at which point "st" became ambiguous.

Re: [fossil-users] About the help command

2015-05-08 Thread Kain Abel
Thank you for opening this thread. I've found some other items on command line help... Here are a few things perhaps worthy to discuss: - exposing abbreviation like ci, co on default help page (the currently only listed with 'fossil help -a') to avoid unexpected results (co (checkout) vs. _co_m

[fossil-users] About the help command

2015-05-07 Thread Abilio Marques
On my previous email I said I was looking for a feature in the help. While being at it, I found out these two details that I want to report. But first, I want to say something about the help/documentation. One of the things I LOVE about fossil is the simplicity. No weird, ultra-hidden cryptic comm