--- a/mercurial/help.py Tue Jun 03 20:56:54 2008 +0200
+++ b/mercurial/help.py Tue Jun 03 21:03:51 2008 +0200
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms
# of the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference.
-helptable = {
- "dates|Date Formats":
+helptable = (
+ ("dates|Date Formats",
r'''
Some commands allow the user to specify a date:
backout, commit, import, tag: Specify the commit date.
@@ -43,9 +43,55 @@
">{date}" - on or after a given date
"{date} to {date}" - a date range, inclusive
"-{days}" - within a given number of days of today
- ''',
+ '''),
+
+ ("patterns|File Name Patterns",
+ r'''
+ Mercurial accepts several notations for identifying one or more
+ files at a time.
+
+ By default, Mercurial treats filenames as shell-style extended
+ glob patterns.
+
+ Alternate pattern notations must be specified explicitly.
+
+ To use a plain path name without any pattern matching, start a
+ name with "path:". These path names must match completely, from
+ the root of the current repository.
+
+ To use an extended glob, start a name with "glob:". Globs are
+ rooted at the current directory; a glob such as "*.c" will match
+ files ending in ".c" in the current directory only.
+
+ The supported glob syntax extensions are "**" to match any string
+ across path separators, and "{a,b}" to mean "a or b".
- 'environment|env|Environment Variables':
+ To use a Perl/Python regular expression, start a name with "re:".
+ Regexp pattern matching is anchored at the root of the repository.
+
+ Plain examples:
+
+ path:foo/bar a name bar in a directory named foo in the root of
+ the repository
+ path:path:name a file or directory named "path:name"
+
+ Glob examples:
+
+ glob:*.c any name ending in ".c" in the current directory
+ *.c any name ending in ".c" in the current directory
+ **.c any name ending in ".c" in the current directory, or
+ any subdirectory
+ foo/*.c any name ending in ".c" in the directory foo
+ foo/**.c any name ending in ".c" in the directory foo, or any
+ subdirectory
+
+ Regexp examples:
+
+ re:.*\.c$ any name ending in ".c", anywhere in the repository
+
+ '''),
+
+ ('environment|env|Environment Variables',
r'''
HG::
Path to the 'hg' executable, automatically passed when running hooks,
@@ -114,51 +160,5 @@
PYTHONPATH::
This is used by Python to find imported modules and may need to be set
appropriately if Mercurial is not installed system-wide.
- ''',
-
- "patterns|File Name Patterns": r'''
- Mercurial accepts several notations for identifying one or more
- files at a time.
-
- By default, Mercurial treats filenames as shell-style extended
- glob patterns.
-
- Alternate pattern notations must be specified explicitly.
-
- To use a plain path name without any pattern matching, start a
- name with "path:". These path names must match completely, from
- the root of the current repository.
-
- To use an extended glob, start a name with "glob:". Globs are
- rooted at the current directory; a glob such as "*.c" will match
- files ending in ".c" in the current directory only.
-
- The supported glob syntax extensions are "**" to match any string
- across path separators, and "{a,b}" to mean "a or b".
-
- To use a Perl/Python regular expression, start a name with "re:".
- Regexp pattern matching is anchored at the root of the repository.
-
- Plain examples:
-
- path:foo/bar a name bar in a directory named foo in the root of
- the repository
- path:path:name a file or directory named "path:name"
-
- Glob examples:
-
- glob:*.c any name ending in ".c" in the current directory
- *.c any name ending in ".c" in the current directory
- **.c any name ending in ".c" in the current directory, or
- any subdirectory
- foo/*.c any name ending in ".c" in the directory foo
- foo/**.c any name ending in ".c" in the directory foo, or any
- subdirectory
-
- Regexp examples:
-
- re:.*\.c$ any name ending in ".c", anywhere in the repository
-
-''',
-}
-
+ '''),
+)