Call for testing of colocated branch support in bzr.dev

Vincent Ladeuil vila+bzr at canonical.com
Fri Jan 20 07:54:14 UTC 2012


>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu.org> writes:

    >> From: Martin Pool <mbp at sourcefrog.net>
    >> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:23:16 +1100
    >> Cc: bazaar at lists.canonical.com
    >> 
    >> I think Stephen's point about the length of 'bzr help commands', which
    >> was a concern to me previously about adding $verb-$subject commands,
    >> may be better handled by just adding some grouping in to that page,
    >> and having see-also links between commands.

    > Better yet, how about "bzr apropos REGEXP" and "bzr apropos-doc REGEXP"?

    > The former matches against command names and the "Purpose" line, the
    > latter matches against the whole documentation text of each command.

Sounds like a very good idea and an obvious missing command indeed. I
routinely use the moral equivalent in emacs when searching about a
command I know should exist and I've almost always found it this way.

I've filed http://pad.lv/919074 for that.

        Vincent



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