On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Julian <j...@ptolserv.com> wrote: > One of the problems is that the help given by fossil help <command> isn't > always complete. For example the help for checkin (fossil help ci), doesn't > list the --date-override or --user-override options, even though they > appear to be accepted. The same appears to be the case for the branch > command. > > The only way I've found to discover them is to use "grep find_option" on > the source - I'm not sure that is very user-friendly. >
Two reasons for this. (1) The help text is intended for quick reference and so we don't want to clutter it up with lots of text describing obscure and rarely used options. (2) Some options we don't want people to use, either because they are dangerous and likely to lead to problems, or because they are experimental and subject to change and perhaps untested, or perhaps the options are deprecated and are still recognized purely for backwards compatibility. The --date-override and --user-override options were put in place to support scripts used to import Fossil content from other repository formats. Both reasons (1) and (2) above apply to these options. -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org
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