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help: backout f3c4edfd35e1 (mark boolean flags with [no-] in help) for now The ability to negate any boolean flags itself is great, but I think we are not ready to expose the help side of it yet. First, while there exist a handful of such flags whose default value can be changed (eg: git diff, patchwork confirmation), there is only a few of them. The users who benefit the most from this change are alias users and large installation that can deploy extension to change behavior (eg: facebook tweakdefault). So the majority of user who will be affected by a large change to command help that is not yet relevant to them. (I expect this to become relevant when ui.progressive start to exists). Below is an example of the impact of the new help on 'hg help diff': -r --rev REV [+] revision -c --change REV change made by revision -a --[no-]text treat all files as text -g --[no-]git use git extended diff format --[no-]nodates omit dates from diff headers --[no-]noprefix omit a/ and b/ prefixes from filenames -p --[no-]show-function show which function each change is in --[no-]reverse produce a diff that undoes the changes -w --[no-]ignore-all-space ignore white space when comparing lines -b --[no-]ignore-space-change ignore changes in the amount of white space -B --[no-]ignore-blank-lines ignore changes whose lines are all blank -U --unified NUM number of lines of context to show --[no-]stat output diffstat-style summary of changes --root DIR produce diffs relative to subdirectory -I --include PATTERN [+] include names matching the given patterns -X --exclude PATTERN [+] exclude names matching the given patterns -S --[no-]subrepos recurse into subrepositories Another issue with the current state of help, the default value for the flag is not conveyed to the user. For example in the 'backout' help, there is no real distinction between "--[no-]backup" (default to True) and "--[no-]keep" (default) to False: --[no-]backup no backups --[no-]keep do not modify working directory during strip In addition, I've discussed with Augie Fackler and the last batch of the work on this have burned him out quite some. Therefore he is not intending to perform any more work on this topic. Quoting him, he would rather see the help part backed out than spending more time on it. I do not think we are ready to expose this to users in 4.0 (freeze in a week), especially because we cannot expect quick improvement on these aspect as this topic no longer have an owner. We should be able to reintroduce that change in the future when someone get back on it and the main issues are solves: * Introduction of ui.progressive makes it relevant for a majority of user, * Current default value are efficiently conveyed to the user. (In addition, the excerpt from diff help show that we still have some issue with some negative option like '--nodates' so further improvement are probably welcome there.)
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@ens-lyon.org>
date Sun, 09 Oct 2016 03:11:18 +0200
parents f3c4edfd35e1
children 66cffa87d2f2
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# help.py - help data for mercurial
#
# Copyright 2006 Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

from __future__ import absolute_import

import itertools
import os
import textwrap

from .i18n import (
    _,
    gettext,
)
from . import (
    cmdutil,
    encoding,
    error,
    extensions,
    filemerge,
    fileset,
    minirst,
    revset,
    templatefilters,
    templatekw,
    templater,
    util,
)
from .hgweb import (
    webcommands,
)

_exclkeywords = [
    "(DEPRECATED)",
    "(EXPERIMENTAL)",
    # i18n: "(DEPRECATED)" is a keyword, must be translated consistently
    _("(DEPRECATED)"),
    # i18n: "(EXPERIMENTAL)" is a keyword, must be translated consistently
    _("(EXPERIMENTAL)"),
    ]

def listexts(header, exts, indent=1, showdeprecated=False):
    '''return a text listing of the given extensions'''
    rst = []
    if exts:
        for name, desc in sorted(exts.iteritems()):
            if not showdeprecated and any(w in desc for w in _exclkeywords):
                continue
            rst.append('%s:%s: %s\n' % (' ' * indent, name, desc))
    if rst:
        rst.insert(0, '\n%s\n\n' % header)
    return rst

def extshelp(ui):
    rst = loaddoc('extensions')(ui).splitlines(True)
    rst.extend(listexts(
        _('enabled extensions:'), extensions.enabled(), showdeprecated=True))
    rst.extend(listexts(_('disabled extensions:'), extensions.disabled()))
    doc = ''.join(rst)
    return doc

def optrst(header, options, verbose):
    data = []
    multioccur = False
    for option in options:
        if len(option) == 5:
            shortopt, longopt, default, desc, optlabel = option
        else:
            shortopt, longopt, default, desc = option
            optlabel = _("VALUE") # default label

        if not verbose and any(w in desc for w in _exclkeywords):
            continue

        so = ''
        if shortopt:
            so = '-' + shortopt
        lo = '--' + longopt
        if default:
            desc += _(" (default: %s)") % default

        if isinstance(default, list):
            lo += " %s [+]" % optlabel
            multioccur = True
        elif (default is not None) and not isinstance(default, bool):
            lo += " %s" % optlabel

        data.append((so, lo, desc))

    if multioccur:
        header += (_(" ([+] can be repeated)"))

    rst = ['\n%s:\n\n' % header]
    rst.extend(minirst.maketable(data, 1))

    return ''.join(rst)

def indicateomitted(rst, omitted, notomitted=None):
    rst.append('\n\n.. container:: omitted\n\n    %s\n\n' % omitted)
    if notomitted:
        rst.append('\n\n.. container:: notomitted\n\n    %s\n\n' % notomitted)

def filtercmd(ui, cmd, kw, doc):
    if not ui.debugflag and cmd.startswith("debug") and kw != "debug":
        return True
    if not ui.verbose and doc and any(w in doc for w in _exclkeywords):
        return True
    return False

def topicmatch(ui, kw):
    """Return help topics matching kw.

    Returns {'section': [(name, summary), ...], ...} where section is
    one of topics, commands, extensions, or extensioncommands.
    """
    kw = encoding.lower(kw)
    def lowercontains(container):
        return kw in encoding.lower(container)  # translated in helptable
    results = {'topics': [],
               'commands': [],
               'extensions': [],
               'extensioncommands': [],
               }
    for names, header, doc in helptable:
        # Old extensions may use a str as doc.
        if (sum(map(lowercontains, names))
            or lowercontains(header)
            or (callable(doc) and lowercontains(doc(ui)))):
            results['topics'].append((names[0], header))
    from . import commands # avoid cycle
    for cmd, entry in commands.table.iteritems():
        if len(entry) == 3:
            summary = entry[2]
        else:
            summary = ''
        # translate docs *before* searching there
        docs = _(getattr(entry[0], '__doc__', None)) or ''
        if kw in cmd or lowercontains(summary) or lowercontains(docs):
            doclines = docs.splitlines()
            if doclines:
                summary = doclines[0]
            cmdname = cmd.partition('|')[0].lstrip('^')
            if filtercmd(ui, cmdname, kw, docs):
                continue
            results['commands'].append((cmdname, summary))
    for name, docs in itertools.chain(
        extensions.enabled(False).iteritems(),
        extensions.disabled().iteritems()):
        if not docs:
            continue
        mod = extensions.load(ui, name, '')
        name = name.rpartition('.')[-1]
        if lowercontains(name) or lowercontains(docs):
            # extension docs are already translated
            results['extensions'].append((name, docs.splitlines()[0]))
        for cmd, entry in getattr(mod, 'cmdtable', {}).iteritems():
            if kw in cmd or (len(entry) > 2 and lowercontains(entry[2])):
                cmdname = cmd.partition('|')[0].lstrip('^')
                if entry[0].__doc__:
                    cmddoc = gettext(entry[0].__doc__).splitlines()[0]
                else:
                    cmddoc = _('(no help text available)')
                if filtercmd(ui, cmdname, kw, cmddoc):
                    continue
                results['extensioncommands'].append((cmdname, cmddoc))
    return results

def loaddoc(topic, subdir=None):
    """Return a delayed loader for help/topic.txt."""

    def loader(ui):
        docdir = os.path.join(util.datapath, 'help')
        if subdir:
            docdir = os.path.join(docdir, subdir)
        path = os.path.join(docdir, topic + ".txt")
        doc = gettext(util.readfile(path))
        for rewriter in helphooks.get(topic, []):
            doc = rewriter(ui, topic, doc)
        return doc

    return loader

internalstable = sorted([
    (['bundles'], _('Bundles'),
     loaddoc('bundles', subdir='internals')),
    (['changegroups'], _('Changegroups'),
     loaddoc('changegroups', subdir='internals')),
    (['requirements'], _('Repository Requirements'),
     loaddoc('requirements', subdir='internals')),
    (['revlogs'], _('Revision Logs'),
     loaddoc('revlogs', subdir='internals')),
    (['wireprotocol'], _('Wire Protocol'),
     loaddoc('wireprotocol', subdir='internals')),
])

def internalshelp(ui):
    """Generate the index for the "internals" topic."""
    lines = []
    for names, header, doc in internalstable:
        lines.append(' :%s: %s\n' % (names[0], header))

    return ''.join(lines)

helptable = sorted([
    (["config", "hgrc"], _("Configuration Files"), loaddoc('config')),
    (["dates"], _("Date Formats"), loaddoc('dates')),
    (["patterns"], _("File Name Patterns"), loaddoc('patterns')),
    (['environment', 'env'], _('Environment Variables'),
     loaddoc('environment')),
    (['revisions', 'revs'], _('Specifying Single Revisions'),
     loaddoc('revisions')),
    (['multirevs', 'mrevs'], _('Specifying Multiple Revisions'),
     loaddoc('multirevs')),
    (['revsets', 'revset'], _("Specifying Revision Sets"), loaddoc('revsets')),
    (['filesets', 'fileset'], _("Specifying File Sets"), loaddoc('filesets')),
    (['diffs'], _('Diff Formats'), loaddoc('diffs')),
    (['merge-tools', 'mergetools'], _('Merge Tools'), loaddoc('merge-tools')),
    (['templating', 'templates', 'template', 'style'], _('Template Usage'),
     loaddoc('templates')),
    (['urls'], _('URL Paths'), loaddoc('urls')),
    (["extensions"], _("Using Additional Features"), extshelp),
    (["subrepos", "subrepo"], _("Subrepositories"), loaddoc('subrepos')),
    (["hgweb"], _("Configuring hgweb"), loaddoc('hgweb')),
    (["glossary"], _("Glossary"), loaddoc('glossary')),
    (["hgignore", "ignore"], _("Syntax for Mercurial Ignore Files"),
     loaddoc('hgignore')),
    (["phases"], _("Working with Phases"), loaddoc('phases')),
    (['scripting'], _('Using Mercurial from scripts and automation'),
     loaddoc('scripting')),
    (['internals'], _("Technical implementation topics"),
     internalshelp),
])

# Maps topics with sub-topics to a list of their sub-topics.
subtopics = {
    'internals': internalstable,
}

# Map topics to lists of callable taking the current topic help and
# returning the updated version
helphooks = {}

def addtopichook(topic, rewriter):
    helphooks.setdefault(topic, []).append(rewriter)

def makeitemsdoc(ui, topic, doc, marker, items, dedent=False):
    """Extract docstring from the items key to function mapping, build a
    single documentation block and use it to overwrite the marker in doc.
    """
    entries = []
    for name in sorted(items):
        text = (items[name].__doc__ or '').rstrip()
        if (not text
            or not ui.verbose and any(w in text for w in _exclkeywords)):
            continue
        text = gettext(text)
        if dedent:
            text = textwrap.dedent(text)
        lines = text.splitlines()
        doclines = [(lines[0])]
        for l in lines[1:]:
            # Stop once we find some Python doctest
            if l.strip().startswith('>>>'):
                break
            if dedent:
                doclines.append(l.rstrip())
            else:
                doclines.append('  ' + l.strip())
        entries.append('\n'.join(doclines))
    entries = '\n\n'.join(entries)
    return doc.replace(marker, entries)

def addtopicsymbols(topic, marker, symbols, dedent=False):
    def add(ui, topic, doc):
        return makeitemsdoc(ui, topic, doc, marker, symbols, dedent=dedent)
    addtopichook(topic, add)

addtopicsymbols('filesets', '.. predicatesmarker', fileset.symbols)
addtopicsymbols('merge-tools', '.. internaltoolsmarker',
                filemerge.internalsdoc)
addtopicsymbols('revsets', '.. predicatesmarker', revset.symbols)
addtopicsymbols('templates', '.. keywordsmarker', templatekw.keywords)
addtopicsymbols('templates', '.. filtersmarker', templatefilters.filters)
addtopicsymbols('templates', '.. functionsmarker', templater.funcs)
addtopicsymbols('hgweb', '.. webcommandsmarker', webcommands.commands,
                dedent=True)

def help_(ui, name, unknowncmd=False, full=True, subtopic=None, **opts):
    '''
    Generate the help for 'name' as unformatted restructured text. If
    'name' is None, describe the commands available.
    '''

    from . import commands # avoid cycle

    def helpcmd(name, subtopic=None):
        try:
            aliases, entry = cmdutil.findcmd(name, commands.table,
                                             strict=unknowncmd)
        except error.AmbiguousCommand as inst:
            # py3k fix: except vars can't be used outside the scope of the
            # except block, nor can be used inside a lambda. python issue4617
            prefix = inst.args[0]
            select = lambda c: c.lstrip('^').startswith(prefix)
            rst = helplist(select)
            return rst

        rst = []

        # check if it's an invalid alias and display its error if it is
        if getattr(entry[0], 'badalias', None):
            rst.append(entry[0].badalias + '\n')
            if entry[0].unknowncmd:
                try:
                    rst.extend(helpextcmd(entry[0].cmdname))
                except error.UnknownCommand:
                    pass
            return rst

        # synopsis
        if len(entry) > 2:
            if entry[2].startswith('hg'):
                rst.append("%s\n" % entry[2])
            else:
                rst.append('hg %s %s\n' % (aliases[0], entry[2]))
        else:
            rst.append('hg %s\n' % aliases[0])
        # aliases
        if full and not ui.quiet and len(aliases) > 1:
            rst.append(_("\naliases: %s\n") % ', '.join(aliases[1:]))
        rst.append('\n')

        # description
        doc = gettext(entry[0].__doc__)
        if not doc:
            doc = _("(no help text available)")
        if util.safehasattr(entry[0], 'definition'):  # aliased command
            source = entry[0].source
            if entry[0].definition.startswith('!'):  # shell alias
                doc = (_('shell alias for::\n\n    %s\n\ndefined by: %s\n') %
                       (entry[0].definition[1:], source))
            else:
                doc = (_('alias for: hg %s\n\n%s\n\ndefined by: %s\n') %
                       (entry[0].definition, doc, source))
        doc = doc.splitlines(True)
        if ui.quiet or not full:
            rst.append(doc[0])
        else:
            rst.extend(doc)
        rst.append('\n')

        # check if this command shadows a non-trivial (multi-line)
        # extension help text
        try:
            mod = extensions.find(name)
            doc = gettext(mod.__doc__) or ''
            if '\n' in doc.strip():
                msg = _("(use 'hg help -e %s' to show help for "
                        "the %s extension)") % (name, name)
                rst.append('\n%s\n' % msg)
        except KeyError:
            pass

        # options
        if not ui.quiet and entry[1]:
            rst.append(optrst(_("options"), entry[1], ui.verbose))

        if ui.verbose:
            rst.append(optrst(_("global options"),
                              commands.globalopts, ui.verbose))

        if not ui.verbose:
            if not full:
                rst.append(_("\n(use 'hg %s -h' to show more help)\n")
                           % name)
            elif not ui.quiet:
                rst.append(_('\n(some details hidden, use --verbose '
                               'to show complete help)'))

        return rst


    def helplist(select=None, **opts):
        # list of commands
        if name == "shortlist":
            header = _('basic commands:\n\n')
        elif name == "debug":
            header = _('debug commands (internal and unsupported):\n\n')
        else:
            header = _('list of commands:\n\n')

        h = {}
        cmds = {}
        for c, e in commands.table.iteritems():
            f = c.partition("|")[0]
            if select and not select(f):
                continue
            if (not select and name != 'shortlist' and
                e[0].__module__ != commands.__name__):
                continue
            if name == "shortlist" and not f.startswith("^"):
                continue
            f = f.lstrip("^")
            doc = e[0].__doc__
            if filtercmd(ui, f, name, doc):
                continue
            doc = gettext(doc)
            if not doc:
                doc = _("(no help text available)")
            h[f] = doc.splitlines()[0].rstrip()
            cmds[f] = c.lstrip("^")

        rst = []
        if not h:
            if not ui.quiet:
                rst.append(_('no commands defined\n'))
            return rst

        if not ui.quiet:
            rst.append(header)
        fns = sorted(h)
        for f in fns:
            if ui.verbose:
                commacmds = cmds[f].replace("|",", ")
                rst.append(" :%s: %s\n" % (commacmds, h[f]))
            else:
                rst.append(' :%s: %s\n' % (f, h[f]))

        ex = opts.get
        anyopts = (ex('keyword') or not (ex('command') or ex('extension')))
        if not name and anyopts:
            exts = listexts(_('enabled extensions:'), extensions.enabled())
            if exts:
                rst.append('\n')
                rst.extend(exts)

            rst.append(_("\nadditional help topics:\n\n"))
            topics = []
            for names, header, doc in helptable:
                topics.append((names[0], header))
            for t, desc in topics:
                rst.append(" :%s: %s\n" % (t, desc))

        if ui.quiet:
            pass
        elif ui.verbose:
            rst.append('\n%s\n' % optrst(_("global options"),
                                         commands.globalopts, ui.verbose))
            if name == 'shortlist':
                rst.append(_("\n(use 'hg help' for the full list "
                             "of commands)\n"))
        else:
            if name == 'shortlist':
                rst.append(_("\n(use 'hg help' for the full list of commands "
                             "or 'hg -v' for details)\n"))
            elif name and not full:
                rst.append(_("\n(use 'hg help %s' to show the full help "
                             "text)\n") % name)
            elif name and cmds and name in cmds.keys():
                rst.append(_("\n(use 'hg help -v -e %s' to show built-in "
                             "aliases and global options)\n") % name)
            else:
                rst.append(_("\n(use 'hg help -v%s' to show built-in aliases "
                             "and global options)\n")
                           % (name and " " + name or ""))
        return rst

    def helptopic(name, subtopic=None):
        # Look for sub-topic entry first.
        header, doc = None, None
        if subtopic and name in subtopics:
            for names, header, doc in subtopics[name]:
                if subtopic in names:
                    break

        if not header:
            for names, header, doc in helptable:
                if name in names:
                    break
            else:
                raise error.UnknownCommand(name)

        rst = [minirst.section(header)]

        # description
        if not doc:
            rst.append("    %s\n" % _("(no help text available)"))
        if callable(doc):
            rst += ["    %s\n" % l for l in doc(ui).splitlines()]

        if not ui.verbose:
            omitted = _('(some details hidden, use --verbose'
                         ' to show complete help)')
            indicateomitted(rst, omitted)

        try:
            cmdutil.findcmd(name, commands.table)
            rst.append(_("\nuse 'hg help -c %s' to see help for "
                       "the %s command\n") % (name, name))
        except error.UnknownCommand:
            pass
        return rst

    def helpext(name, subtopic=None):
        try:
            mod = extensions.find(name)
            doc = gettext(mod.__doc__) or _('no help text available')
        except KeyError:
            mod = None
            doc = extensions.disabledext(name)
            if not doc:
                raise error.UnknownCommand(name)

        if '\n' not in doc:
            head, tail = doc, ""
        else:
            head, tail = doc.split('\n', 1)
        rst = [_('%s extension - %s\n\n') % (name.rpartition('.')[-1], head)]
        if tail:
            rst.extend(tail.splitlines(True))
            rst.append('\n')

        if not ui.verbose:
            omitted = _('(some details hidden, use --verbose'
                         ' to show complete help)')
            indicateomitted(rst, omitted)

        if mod:
            try:
                ct = mod.cmdtable
            except AttributeError:
                ct = {}
            modcmds = set([c.partition('|')[0] for c in ct])
            rst.extend(helplist(modcmds.__contains__))
        else:
            rst.append(_("(use 'hg help extensions' for information on enabling"
                       " extensions)\n"))
        return rst

    def helpextcmd(name, subtopic=None):
        cmd, ext, mod = extensions.disabledcmd(ui, name,
                                               ui.configbool('ui', 'strict'))
        doc = gettext(mod.__doc__).splitlines()[0]

        rst = listexts(_("'%s' is provided by the following "
                              "extension:") % cmd, {ext: doc}, indent=4,
                       showdeprecated=True)
        rst.append('\n')
        rst.append(_("(use 'hg help extensions' for information on enabling "
                   "extensions)\n"))
        return rst


    rst = []
    kw = opts.get('keyword')
    if kw or name is None and any(opts[o] for o in opts):
        matches = topicmatch(ui, name or '')
        helpareas = []
        if opts.get('extension'):
            helpareas += [('extensions', _('Extensions'))]
        if opts.get('command'):
            helpareas += [('commands', _('Commands'))]
        if not helpareas:
            helpareas = [('topics', _('Topics')),
                         ('commands', _('Commands')),
                         ('extensions', _('Extensions')),
                         ('extensioncommands', _('Extension Commands'))]
        for t, title in helpareas:
            if matches[t]:
                rst.append('%s:\n\n' % title)
                rst.extend(minirst.maketable(sorted(matches[t]), 1))
                rst.append('\n')
        if not rst:
            msg = _('no matches')
            hint = _("try 'hg help' for a list of topics")
            raise error.Abort(msg, hint=hint)
    elif name and name != 'shortlist':
        queries = []
        if unknowncmd:
            queries += [helpextcmd]
        if opts.get('extension'):
            queries += [helpext]
        if opts.get('command'):
            queries += [helpcmd]
        if not queries:
            queries = (helptopic, helpcmd, helpext, helpextcmd)
        for f in queries:
            try:
                rst = f(name, subtopic)
                break
            except error.UnknownCommand:
                pass
        else:
            if unknowncmd:
                raise error.UnknownCommand(name)
            else:
                msg = _('no such help topic: %s') % name
                hint = _("try 'hg help --keyword %s'") % name
                raise error.Abort(msg, hint=hint)
    else:
        # program name
        if not ui.quiet:
            rst = [_("Mercurial Distributed SCM\n"), '\n']
        rst.extend(helplist(None, **opts))

    return ''.join(rst)