Hidden commands not in the manual

Martin Pool mbp at canonical.com
Fri Apr 1 07:59:08 UTC 2011


On 1 April 2011 18:49, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu.org> wrote:
> lookup-revision and revision-info are not in the manual (at least not
> on Windows) in bzr 2.3.1, but "bzr help" does know about them.
>
> I see that these are "hidden" commands.  Is there a reason for them to
> be hidden?

Generally only developer-oriented or debugging commands are marked hidden.

> More generally, should hidden command appear in the manual, at least
> in a separate section?  Having them in the manual would make it easier
> to find them when they are needed.

That would be good.

Martin



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