D2095: clone: updates the help text for hg clone -r (issue5654) [bugzilla] and hg clone -b

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D2095: clone: updates the help text for hg clone -r (issue5654) [bugzilla] and hg clone -b

sangeet259 added a comment. Oh! Thanks for letting me know! I will keep that in mind. REPOSITORY rHG Mercurial REVISION DETAIL https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2095 To: sangeet259, #hg-reviewers, durin42 Cc: pulkit, durin42, joerg.sonnenberger, dlax, mercurial-devel

D2095: clone: updates the help text for hg clone -r (issue5654) [bugzilla] and hg clone -b

pulkit added a comment. For future bug fixes: we don't append [bugzilla] at the end of commits which fixes bug, we only mention the issue number. We use bugzilla only for bugs/issues, so an issue number in the commit message refers to the issue on bugzilla. REPOSITORY rHG Mercurial

D2095: clone: updates the help text for hg clone -r (issue5654) [bugzilla] and hg clone -b

durin42 accepted this revision as: durin42. durin42 added a comment. I can live with this as a strict improvement over what we've got. Anyone object or want to agree with me? (I'm happy to fix the inevitable test changes in flight) REPOSITORY rHG Mercurial REVISION DETAIL

D2095: clone: updates the help text for hg clone -r (issue5654) [bugzilla] and hg clone -b

sangeet259 added a comment. In https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2095#35494, @joerg.sonnenberger wrote: > There was a longish discussion on IRC about this. The problem is that the flags by themselves do not document the interaction of -r and -b or multiple instances of either at all. The

D2095: clone: updates the help text for hg clone -r (issue5654) [bugzilla] and hg clone -b

joerg.sonnenberger added a comment. There was a longish discussion on IRC about this. The problem is that the flags by themselves do not document the interaction of -r and -b or multiple instances of either at all. The change was a compromise trying to address that. REPOSITORY rHG

D2095: clone: updates the help text for hg clone -r (issue5654) [bugzilla] and hg clone -b

dlax added a comment. sangeet259 (Sangeet Kumar Mishra) wrote: > @dlax https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/p/dlax/ Yes, but the short > summary didn't say what it does! It just says "include the specified > changeset". I agree it's not super-clear. Perhaps we could say "clone only

D2095: clone: updates the help text for hg clone -r (issue5654) [bugzilla] and hg clone -b

sangeet259 added a comment. @dlax Yes, but the short summary didn't say what it does! It just says "include the specified changeset". REPOSITORY rHG Mercurial REVISION DETAIL https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2095 To: sangeet259, #hg-reviewers Cc: dlax, mercurial-devel

D2095: clone: updates the help text for hg clone -r (issue5654) [bugzilla] and hg clone -b

dlax added a comment. As mentioned in the issue, there's already an explanation paragraph help: To pull only a subset of changesets, specify one or more revisions identifiers with -r/--rev or branches with -b/--branch. The resulting clone will contain only the specified

D2095: clone: updates the help text for hg clone -r (issue5654) [bugzilla] and hg clone -b

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