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# Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 by Canonical Ltd
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# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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# (at your option) any later version.
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# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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# GNU General Public License for more details.
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
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# TODO: Some way to get a list of external commands (defined by shell
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# scripts) so that they can be included in the help listing as well.
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# It should be enough to just list the plugin directory and look for
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# executable files with reasonable names.
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# TODO: `help commands --all` should show hidden commands
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global_help = \
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"""Bazaar-NG -- a free distributed version-control tool
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http://bazaar-ng.org/
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974.1.26 by aaron.bentley at utoronto
merged mbp@sourcefrog.net-20050817233101-0939da1cf91f2472
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WARNING: This is an unstable development version.
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         Please keep backups.
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Basic commands:
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  bzr init      makes this branch versioned
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  bzr branch    make a copy of another branch
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  bzr add       make files or directories versioned
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  bzr ignore    ignore a file or pattern
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  bzr mv        move or rename a versioned file
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  bzr status    summarize changes in working copy
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  bzr diff      show detailed diffs
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  bzr merge     pull in changes from another branch
1092.1.44 by Robert Collins
give help some info
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  bzr commit    save some or all changes
974.1.26 by aaron.bentley at utoronto
merged mbp@sourcefrog.net-20050817233101-0939da1cf91f2472
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  bzr log       show history of changes
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  bzr check     validate storage
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1099 by Martin Pool
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Use e.g. 'bzr help init' for more details, or
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'bzr help commands' for all commands.
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"""
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import sys
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def help(topic=None, outfile = None):
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    if outfile == None:
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        outfile = sys.stdout
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    if topic == None:
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        outfile.write(global_help)
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    elif topic == 'commands':
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        help_commands(outfile = outfile)
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    else:
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        help_on_command(topic, outfile = outfile)
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def command_usage(cmd_object):
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    """Return single-line grammar for command.
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    Only describes arguments, not options.
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    """
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    s = 'bzr ' + cmd_object.name() + ' '
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    for aname in cmd_object.takes_args:
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        aname = aname.upper()
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        if aname[-1] in ['$', '+']:
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            aname = aname[:-1] + '...'
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        elif aname[-1] == '?':
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            aname = '[' + aname[:-1] + ']'
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        elif aname[-1] == '*':
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            aname = '[' + aname[:-1] + '...]'
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        s += aname + ' '
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    assert s[-1] == ' '
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    s = s[:-1]
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    return s
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def help_on_command(cmdname, outfile=None):
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    from bzrlib.commands import get_cmd_object
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    cmdname = str(cmdname)
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    if outfile == None:
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        outfile = sys.stdout
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    cmd_object = get_cmd_object(cmdname)
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    doc = cmd_object.help()
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    if doc == None:
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        raise NotImplementedError("sorry, no detailed help yet for %r" % cmdname)
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    print >>outfile, 'usage:', command_usage(cmd_object) 
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    if cmd_object.aliases:
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        print >>outfile, 'aliases:',
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        print >>outfile, ', '.join(cmd_object.aliases)
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    print >>outfile
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    outfile.write(doc)
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    if doc[-1] != '\n':
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        outfile.write('\n')
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    help_on_options(cmd_object.takes_options, outfile=None)
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def help_on_options(options, outfile=None):
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    from bzrlib.commands import SHORT_OPTIONS
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    if not options:
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        return
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    if outfile == None:
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        outfile = sys.stdout
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    outfile.write('\noptions:\n')
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    for on in options:
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        l = '    --' + on
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        for shortname, longname in SHORT_OPTIONS.items():
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            if longname == on:
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                l += ', -' + shortname
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                break
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        outfile.write(l + '\n')
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def help_commands(outfile=None):
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    """List all commands"""
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    from bzrlib.commands import (builtin_command_names,
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                                 plugin_command_names,
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                                 get_cmd_object)
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    if outfile == None:
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        outfile = sys.stdout
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    names = set()                       # to eliminate duplicates
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    names.update(builtin_command_names())
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    names.update(plugin_command_names())
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    names = list(names)
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    names.sort()
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    for cmd_name in names:
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        cmd_object = get_cmd_object(cmd_name)
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        if cmd_object.hidden:
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            continue
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        print >>outfile, command_usage(cmd_object)
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        cmd_help = cmd_object.help()
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        if cmd_help:
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            firstline = cmd_help.split('\n', 1)[0]
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            print >>outfile, '    ' + firstline
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