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# Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006 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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def help(topic=None, outfile=None):
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"""Write the help for the specific topic to outfile"""
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if topic in help_topics.topic_registry:
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txt = help_topics.topic_registry.get_detail(topic)
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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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s = 'bzr ' + cmd_object.name() + ' '
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for aname in cmd_object.takes_args:
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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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def print_command_plugin(cmd_object, outfile, format):
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"""Print the plugin that provides a command object, if any.
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If the cmd_object is provided by a plugin, prints the plugin name to
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outfile using the provided format string.
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plugin_name = cmd_object.plugin_name()
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if plugin_name is not None:
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out_str = '(From plugin "%s")' % plugin_name
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outfile.write(format % out_str)
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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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cmd_object = get_cmd_object(cmdname)
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doc = cmd_object.help()
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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_command_plugin(cmd_object, outfile, '%s\n\n')
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help_on_command_options(cmd_object, outfile)
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def help_on_command_options(cmd, outfile=None):
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from bzrlib.option import Option, get_optparser
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options = cmd.options()
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outfile.write(get_optparser(options).format_option_help())
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def help_commands(outfile=None):
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"""List all commands"""
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outfile.write(_help_commands_to_text('commands'))
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def _help_commands_to_text(topic):
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"""Generate the help text for the list of commands"""
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from bzrlib.commands import (builtin_command_names,
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plugin_command_names,
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if topic == 'hidden-commands':
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names = set(builtin_command_names()) # to eliminate duplicates
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names.update(plugin_command_names())
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commands = ((n, get_cmd_object(n)) for n in names)
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shown_commands = [(n, o) for n, o in commands if o.hidden == hidden]
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max_name = max(len(n) for n, o in shown_commands)
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indent = ' ' * (max_name + 1)
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width = osutils.terminal_width() - 1
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for cmd_name, cmd_object in sorted(shown_commands):
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plugin_name = cmd_object.plugin_name()
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if plugin_name is None:
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plugin_name = ' [%s]' % plugin_name
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cmd_help = cmd_object.help()
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firstline = cmd_help.split('\n', 1)[0]
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helpstring = '%-*s %s%s' % (max_name, cmd_name, firstline, plugin_name)
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lines = textwrap.wrap(helpstring, subsequent_indent=indent,
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out.append(line + '\n')
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help_topics.topic_registry.register("commands",
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_help_commands_to_text,
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"Basic help for all commands")
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help_topics.topic_registry.register("hidden-commands",
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_help_commands_to_text,
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"All hidden commands")