Hidden commands not in the manual

Eli Zaretskii eliz at gnu.org
Fri Apr 1 08:04:51 UTC 2011


> 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.

> > 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.

Should I submit a bug report?




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