Hidden commands not in the manual

[Martin Pool]

On 1 April 2011 19:04, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com>
>> Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 18:59:08 +1100
>> Cc: bazaar at lists.canonical.com
>>
>> 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.
>
> Maybe there's a need to revisit these decisions from time to time.
> The two commands mentioned above sound quite useful for general user
> population.

I agree revisiting it could be useful; also sometimes there are
commands that are of marginal value and perhaps should be deleted, or
perhaps they should be integrated with some other command.

Either patches to expose them or bug reports asking for it are
welcome.  The former a little more welcome :)

Martin