# HG changeset patch
# User Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas@intevation.de>
# Date 1181662797 -7200
# Node ID a73d80d6385a463149a2f21b7c4165cf368849d7
# Parent  050fa240db9cebc0fb6238c09de40fcfb867bb95
Revive commands.dispatch as a simple way to call hg from other pythons scripts.

This was already used by hg-ssh and others and is really convenient if you
just want a native equivalent of calling the command line version.

diff --git a/mercurial/commands.py b/mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py
@@ -2997,11 +2997,13 @@ norepo = ("clone init version help debug
           " debugindex debugindexdot debugdate debuginstall")
 optionalrepo = ("paths serve showconfig")
 
-def run():
+def dispatch(args):
     try:
-        u = ui.ui(traceback='--traceback' in sys.argv[1:])
+        u = ui.ui(traceback='--traceback' in args)
     except util.Abort, inst:
         sys.stderr.write(_("abort: %s\n") % inst)
         return -1
-    sys.exit(cmdutil.runcatch(u, sys.argv[1:]))
-
+    return cmdutil.runcatch(u, args)
+
+def run():
+    sys.exit(dispatch(sys.argv[1:]))