help: format command and option list help using RST This patch changes the function which generates help text about commands and options to use RST formatting. Tables describing options have been formatted using RST table markup for some time already, so their appearance does not change. Command lists, however, change appearance. To format non-verbose command lists, RST field list markup was chosen, because it resembles the old format: <http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickref.html#field-lists> In the old (hand-coded) format of non-verbose command lists, the left column is 12 characters wide. Our minirst implementation formats field lists with a left column 14 characters wide, so this patch changes the appearance of help output correspondingly: <http://markmail.org/message/krl4cxopsnii7s6z?q=mercurial+reinert+from:%22Olav+Reinert%22&page=2> The minirst markup most closely resembling the old verbose command lists is definition lists. But using it would cause a blank line to be inserted between each command definition, making the output excessively long, and no more useful than before. To avoid this, I chose to use field lists also for verbose command help, resulting in output like this example: add add the specified files on the next commit annotate, blame show changeset information by line for each file clone make a copy of an existing repository commit, ci commit the specified files or all outstanding changes diff diff repository (or selected files) export dump the header and diffs for one or more changesets forget forget the specified files on the next commit init create a new repository in the given directory log, history show revision history of entire repository or files merge merge working directory with another revision phase set or show the current phase name pull pull changes from the specified source push push changes to the specified destination qdiff diff of the current patch and subsequent modifications qinit init a new queue repository (DEPRECATED) qnew create a new patch qpop pop the current patch off the stack qpush push the next patch onto the stack qrefresh update the current patch remove, rm remove the specified files on the next commit serve start stand-alone webserver status, st show changed files in the working directory summary, sum summarize working directory state update, up, checkout, co update working directory (or switch revisions) This change is a move towards generating all help text as a list of strings marked up with RST.

--- a/tests/test-commandserver.py.out	Sat Jun 02 11:22:33 2012 +0200
+++ b/tests/test-commandserver.py.out	Sat Jun 02 11:25:40 2012 +0200
@@ -16,24 +16,24 @@
 
 basic commands:
 
- add         add the specified files on the next commit
- annotate    show changeset information by line for each file
- clone       make a copy of an existing repository
- commit      commit the specified files or all outstanding changes
- diff        diff repository (or selected files)
- export      dump the header and diffs for one or more changesets
- forget      forget the specified files on the next commit
- init        create a new repository in the given directory
- log         show revision history of entire repository or files
- merge       merge working directory with another revision
- phase       set or show the current phase name
- pull        pull changes from the specified source
- push        push changes to the specified destination
- remove      remove the specified files on the next commit
- serve       start stand-alone webserver
- status      show changed files in the working directory
- summary     summarize working directory state
- update      update working directory (or switch revisions)
+ add           add the specified files on the next commit
+ annotate      show changeset information by line for each file
+ clone         make a copy of an existing repository
+ commit        commit the specified files or all outstanding changes
+ diff          diff repository (or selected files)
+ export        dump the header and diffs for one or more changesets
+ forget        forget the specified files on the next commit
+ init          create a new repository in the given directory
+ log           show revision history of entire repository or files
+ merge         merge working directory with another revision
+ phase         set or show the current phase name
+ pull          pull changes from the specified source
+ push          push changes to the specified destination
+ remove        remove the specified files on the next commit
+ serve         start stand-alone webserver
+ status        show changed files in the working directory
+ summary       summarize working directory state
+ update        update working directory (or switch revisions)
 
 use "hg help" for the full list of commands or "hg -v" for details
  runcommand id --quiet