Comment 8 for bug 31663

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Wouter van Heyst (larstiq) wrote : Re: [PATCH] Mention the revisionspec topic in the revision option help (#31633).

On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 07:28:58PM +1100, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 19 Dec 2006, Wouter van Heyst <email address hidden> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 11:20:05PM +0100, Wouter van Heyst wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 09:26:38PM -0000, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> > > > I think this bug is stale. "ancestor" and "branch" are both documented
> > > > in "bzr help revisionspec"
> > >
> > > Agreed. To make it more discoverable, how about the attached bundle?
> >
> > And this time with it attached.
>
> That looks good. Could we add a see_also as a structured field for
> commands and help topics, so that they can be represented consistently,
> and perhaps turned into hyperlinks in html etc? We could also add
> entries to it automatically for the command's options if they have
> additional help, as for -r pointing to revisionsper.

I like the idea of turning them into hyperlinks in html, on the way to a
true reference manual. Not sure how to present all that information in
the commandline client, Matthew might have something to say about that.

Wouter van Heyst