# help.py - help data for mercurial

#

# Copyright 2006 Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>

#

# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms

# of the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference.

helptable = {

    "dates|Date Formats":

    r'''

    Some commands (backout, commit, tag) allow the user to specify a date.

    Possible formats for dates are:

YYYY-mm-dd \HH:MM[:SS] [(+|-)NNNN]::

    This is a subset of ISO 8601, allowing just the recommended notations

    for date and time. The last part represents the timezone; if omitted,

    local time is assumed. Examples:

    "2005-08-22 03:27 -0700"

    "2006-04-19 21:39:51"

aaa bbb dd HH:MM:SS YYYY [(+|-)NNNN]::

    This is the date format used by the C library. Here, aaa stands for

    abbreviated weekday name and bbb for abbreviated month name. The last

    part represents the timezone; if omitted, local time is assumed.

    Examples:

    "Mon Aug 22 03:27:00 2005 -0700"

    "Wed Apr 19 21:39:51 2006"

unixtime offset::

    This is the internal representation format for dates. unixtime is

    the number of seconds since the epoch (1970-01-01 00:00 UTC). offset

    is the offset of the local timezone, in seconds west of UTC (negative

    if the timezone is east of UTC).

    Examples:

    "1124706420 25200" (2005-08-22 03:27:00 -0700)

    "1145475591 -7200" (2006-04-19 21:39:51 +0200)

    ''',

    'environment|env|Environment Variables':

    r'''

HGEDITOR::

    This is the name of the editor to use when committing. Defaults to the

    value of EDITOR.

    (deprecated, use .hgrc)

HGENCODING::

    This overrides the default locale setting detected by Mercurial.

    This setting is used to convert data including usernames,

    changeset descriptions, tag names, and branches. This setting can

    be overridden with the --encoding command-line option.

HGENCODINGMODE::

    This sets Mercurial's behavior for handling unknown characters

    while transcoding user inputs. The default is "strict", which

    causes Mercurial to abort if it can't translate a character. Other

    settings include "replace", which replaces unknown characters, and

    "ignore", which drops them. This setting can be overridden with

    the --encodingmode command-line option.

HGMERGE::

    An executable to use for resolving merge conflicts. The program

    will be executed with three arguments: local file, remote file,

    ancestor file.

    The default program is "hgmerge", which is a shell script provided

    by Mercurial with some sensible defaults.

    (deprecated, use .hgrc)

HGRCPATH::

    A list of files or directories to search for hgrc files.  Item

    separator is ":" on Unix, ";" on Windows.  If HGRCPATH is not set,

    platform default search path is used.  If empty, only .hg/hgrc of

    current repository is read.

    For each element in path, if a directory, all entries in directory

    ending with ".rc" are added to path.  Else, element itself is

    added to path.

HGUSER::

    This is the string used for the author of a commit.

    (deprecated, use .hgrc)

EMAIL::

    If HGUSER is not set, this will be used as the author for a commit.

LOGNAME::

    If neither HGUSER nor EMAIL is set, LOGNAME will be used (with

    '@hostname' appended) as the author value for a commit.

EDITOR::

    This is the name of the editor used in the hgmerge script. It will be

    used for commit messages if HGEDITOR isn't set. Defaults to 'vi'.

PYTHONPATH::

    This is used by Python to find imported modules and may need to be set

    appropriately if Mercurial is not installed system-wide.

}