av6 added a comment.

  The point of https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D5430 was to make hg help output 
more human friendly by replacing `True` and `False` with something less 
Python-related. In other words, more human-friendly. "Yes" and "no" are way 
more human-friendly:
  
  - they are one of the most used words, so people naturally expect to see 
them, and can tell them apart from just "y" or "n" (they are also less 
ambiguous themselves — just look up how many meanings "on" or "off" has and how 
many parts of speech can they be),
  - they also work perfectly fine as answers to the flag descriptions (Consider 
hidden changesets? Yes, please. No, thanks.),
  - and "no" (more precisely, "no-") is the very same thing that users should 
add to the flags to negate them (not "--off-hidden").

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REVISION DETAIL
  https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D5444

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