Hello, On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 04:14:40PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 23. September 2009 15:21:28 schrieb Sergiu Ivanov: > > I usually prefer to have a long output than some witty short text > > which contains some jokes, some vague indications, and no real > > instructions. (I don't remember examples, but I've surely run into > > something like this in the past) > > Among Mercurial users there's the saying "if you need to do anything, just > call hg help <command>, and you have your answer". > > I seldomly see help output as useful as Mercurials. > > So I think the shorter output of mercurial is an advantage, because > I acutally find what I search for (quite quickly).
Yes, you are right, of course. This is because hg help gives you the right answer immediately. Regards, scolobb
