loom's switch help masks Bazaar's switch help

[Jonathan Lange]

'bzr help switch' shows less information when run while the bzr-loom plugin is active (see diff below).

Perhaps bzr-loom should modify the help from the builtin switch, rather than copying it into the source?

--- /home/jml/Desktop/bzr-switch-help.txt 2009-01-05 11:52:40.000000000 +1100
+++ /home/jml/Desktop/loom-switch-help.txt 2009-01-05 11:52:14.000000000 +1100
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$ bzr help --no-plugins switch
+$ bzr help switch
 Purpose: Set the branch of a checkout and update.
 Usage: bzr switch TO_LOCATION

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
   -h, --help Show help message.

 Description:
+ For looms, this is equivalent to 'down-thread' when to_location is the name
+ of a thread in the loom.
   For lightweight checkouts, this changes the branch being referenced.
   For heavyweight checkouts, this checks that there are no local commits
   versus the current bound branch, then it makes the local branch a mirror
@@ -18,12 +20,5 @@
   are merged. The user can commit or revert these as they desire.

   Pending merges need to be committed or reverted before using switch.
-
- The path to the branch to switch to can be specified relative to the parent
- directory of the current branch. For example, if you are currently in a
- checkout of /path/to/branch, specifying 'newbranch' will find a branch at
- /path/to/newbranch.
-
- Bound branches use the nickname of its master branch unless it is set
- locally, in which case switching will update the the local nickname to be
- that of the master.
+
+From: plugin "loom"

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 00:54 +0000, Jonathan Lange wrote:
>
> Perhaps bzr-loom should modify the help from the builtin switch,
> rather
> than copying it into the source?

Or perhaps use the help namespace facilty to allow accessing the
original help.

-Rob
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