This has been sitting in my repo for some time, because I've been too
embarrassed to send it.  The code is fugly, and I'm not convinced that
the functionality is desirable.

I suppose this (requesting the docstring of a single entry) might be
more useful in the "darcs help preferences" and "darcs help files" I
intend to implement, e.g. "darcs help files boring" would describe
_darcs/prefs/boring.

Sun Jun 28 22:10:17 EST 2009  Trent W. Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com>
  * Add optional specifier for "darcs help environment [VARIABLE]".
  This kind of command-line argument parsing seems like a huge bodge.
  Surely there is a better way to write this, maybe with getopt?

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• add-optional-specifier-for-_darcs-help-environment-_variable___.dpatch
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Eric reviewed this patch on the mailing list before the patch tracker
existed, but I'm not sure what the resolution was.  Reassigning to him
for now.

Here is the link to my review:
http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-October/021740.html
It looks like a very passive "amend requested" (more like, maybe these
suggestions will make you happier with the patch)...

Gah, what is your problem, 2009-Eric? The code seems fine! Well, OK 
maybe it's worth doing something about that 'error', but otherwise, geez 
way to nitpick and leave a patch languishing on the tracker for two 
years.

Sorry Trent!  It wasn't policy so much as disorganisation.  I've never 
succeeded in training myself to follow up on things.  Hopefully will get 
better at it as I start learning a better way to track things I'm 
waiting on.