I would agree here, it's not at all clear. Even when you know there is a --user option, then the fossil output isn't clear:
steves@sapphire ~> f ls fossil: current directory is not within an open checkout # OK steves@sapphire ~> f --user foo fossil: fossil: unknown command: --user fossil: use "help" for more information # So the first argument must be the command? steves@sapphire ~> f --user foo ls fossil: current directory is not within an open checkout # No, it accepts user, maybe it accepts anything.. steves@sapphire ~> f --bar foo ls fossil: fossil: unknown command: --bar fossil: use "help" for more information # No, ok, so let's see the help: steves@sapphire ~> f --help Usage: fossil help COMMAND Common COMMANDs: (use "fossil help --all" for a complete list) add changes finfo merge revert tag addremove clean gdiff mv rm timeline all clone help open settings ui annotate commit import pull sqlite3 undo bisect diff info push stash update branch export init rebuild status version cat extras ls remote-url sync This is fossil version 1.25 [d2e07756d9] 2013-02-16 00:04:35 UTC No mention.. what about fossil help user .. no, that's something else.. The same thing happens with -R, I believe Thanks Steve On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 1:27 PM, j. van den hoff <veedeeh...@googlemail.com>wrote: > On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 14:03:42 +0200, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 1:38 PM, j. van den hoff >> <veedeeh...@googlemail.com>**wrote: >> >> question: should there not be a help page for fossil itself, maybe >>> (`fossil help fossil') which explains this sort of things? >>> >> >> >> Is this perhaps what you're looking for: >> >> [stephan@host:~]$ f help help >> Usage: f help COMMAND >> or: f COMMAND -help >> >> Display information on how to use COMMAND. To display a list of >> available commands one of: >> >> f help Show common commands >> f help --a|-all Show both common and auxiliary commands >> f help --t|-test Show test commands only >> f help --x|-aux Show auxiliary commands only >> f help --w|-www Show list of WWW pages >> >> >> ? >> > > no: `fossil --user joedoe ci' has the form > > fossil fossil_option COMMAND COMMAND_option > > so the possibility of having a option for fossil itself is not explained > in the help. or what am I missing? what I mean is, in my understanding the > terminology is COMMAND is one of the keywords (without leading dashes) > displayed by `fossil help -a' while `--user' is not a COMMAND but rather an > option (but not of one of the COMMANDS but of `fossil' itself. > > > >> > > -- > Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ > ______________________________**_________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.**org <fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org> > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:**8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/**fossil-users<http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users> >
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