help: add examples to phases topic

mercurial/help/phases.txt

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 What are phases?
 ----------------
 
 Phases are a system for tracking which changesets have been or should
 be shared. This helps prevent common mistakes when modifying history
 (for instance, with the mq or rebase extensions).
 
 Each changeset in a repository is in one of the following phases:
 
  - public : changeset is visible on a public server
  - draft : changeset is not yet published
  - secret : changeset should not be pushed, pulled, or cloned
 
 These phases are ordered (public < draft < secret) and no changeset
 can be in a lower phase than its ancestors. For instance, if a
 changeset is public, all its ancestors are also public. Lastly,
 changeset phases only be changed towards the public phase.
 
 How are phases managed?
 -----------------------
 
 For the most part, phases should work transparently. By default, a
 changeset is created in the draft phase and is moved into the public
 phase when it is pushed to another repository.
 
 Once changesets become public, extensions like mq and rebase will
 refuse to operate on them to prevent creating duplicate changesets.
 Phases can also be manually manipulated with the :hg:`phase` command
 if needed. See :hg:`help -v phase` for examples.
 
 Phases and servers
 ------------------
 
 Normally, all servers are ``publishing`` by default. This means::
 
  - all draft changesets that are pulled or cloned appear in phase
  public on the client
 
  - all draft changesets that are pushed appear as public on both
  client and server
 
  - secret changesets are neither pushed, pulled, or cloned
 
 .. note::
   Pulling a draft changeset from a publishing server does not mark it
   as public on the server side due to the read-only nature of pull.
 
 Sometimes it may be desirable to push and pull changesets in the draft
 phase to share unfinished work. This can be done by setting a
 repository to disable publishing in its configuration file::
 
   [phases]
   publish = False
 
 See :hg:`help config` for more information on config files.
 
 .. note::
   Servers running older versions of Mercurial are treated as
   publishing.
 
-See :hg:`help phase` for information on manually manipulating phases.
+Examples
+--------
+
+ - list changesets in draft or secret phase::
+
+     hg log -r "not public()"
+
+ - change all secret changesets to draft::
+
+     hg phase --draft "secret()"
+
+ - forcibly move the current changeset and descendants from public to draft::
+
+     hg phase --force --draft .
+
+ - show a list of changeset revision and phase::
+
+     hg log --template "{rev} {phase}\n"
+
+See :hg:`help phase` for more information on manually manipulating phases.