doc/README
author mpm@selenic.com
Tue, 28 Jun 2005 02:38:33 -0800
changeset 508 42a660abaf75
parent 453 7a3a3952c431
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[PATCH] Harden os.system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [PATCH] Harden os.system From: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com> Add util.system function. This is similar to os.system, but will either succeed (if the process finishes with a zero exit code) or raise a util.CommandError (if the process exits uncleanly or is killed by a signal). Add util.explain_exit function. This tends to be ubiquitous in code that calls other processes, and must describe what has gone wrong. Change some uses of os.system over to util.system. manifest hash: e3bf4adcac5b915432ec0af00efdbcef86bea4b1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCwSipywK+sNU5EO8RAr0RAJkBDt8XQ7mYQAWNHNgTOVt1eyWU1QCfe1oO 2OwxyWqpbRNACVJHHfZ3/Xw= =OaRX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Mercurial's documentation is currently kept in ASCIIDOC format, which
is a simple plain text format that's easy to read and edit. It's also
convertible to a variety of other formats including standard UNIX man
page format and HTML.

To do this, you'll need to install ASCIIDOC:

 http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/

To generate the man page:

 asciidoc -d manpage -b docbook hg.1.txt
 xmlto man hg.1.xml

To display:

 groff -mandoc -Tascii hg.1 | more

To create the html page (without stylesheets):

 asciidoc -b html hg.1.txt