short welcome message for bzr

[John Arbash Meinel]

Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> I'd like to make in win32 distribution some special launcher that invoke
> command shell in particular directory and prints short message from bzr.
> Because by default new command console starts with size of 80*25 symbols
> I need something attractive and small (23 lines max).
> Output of "bzr help" is bad because it more than 23 lines.
> 
> I make simple message to show. Any hints to improve and ready-to-use
> messages is very appreciated.
> 
> -- 
> Alexander
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Bazaar-NG -- a free distributed version-control tool
> http://bazaar-ng.org/
> 
> Please remember to keep backups!
> 
> If you need help:
> 
>   bzr help           	to obtain short usage help 
>   bzr help commands  	list all commands
>   bzr help <cmd>	more help on particular command
> 
> See bzr_man.htm for more help.
> 

I would get rid of the "Please remember to keep backups!". We have
certainly discussed removing it from 'bzr help', and it takes up a lot
of precious space.

The web-page is wrong now. It should be "bazaar-vcs.org", attached is a
patch in jam-integration to fix all occurrences of bazaar-ng.org to
bazaar-vcs.org

So I would do something more like the attached help.txt. It is 22 lines
long, so it fits your length requirements. And I think it gives the very
basic, very useful commands. I changed the grouping a little bit, some
to save space, and some to put the common commands for new users
together. (init, add, ignore, commit then status, diff, log).

John
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