require: provide a link to a wiki page in addition of suggesting upgrade
The wiki page is intended to describe several solution to the requirement issue.
Some of those solutions does not involve upgrading mercurial. That is very
useful for people that can't easily upgrade they Mercurial in some place.
# Read the output of a "svn log --xml" command on stdin, parse it and
# print a subset of attributes common to all svn versions tested by
# hg.
import xml.dom.minidom, sys
def xmltext(e):
return ''.join(c.data for c
in e.childNodes
if c.nodeType == c.TEXT_NODE)
def parseentry(entry):
e = {}
e['revision'] = entry.getAttribute('revision')
e['author'] = xmltext(entry.getElementsByTagName('author')[0])
e['msg'] = xmltext(entry.getElementsByTagName('msg')[0])
e['paths'] = []
paths = entry.getElementsByTagName('paths')
if paths:
paths = paths[0]
for p in paths.getElementsByTagName('path'):
action = p.getAttribute('action')
path = xmltext(p)
frompath = p.getAttribute('copyfrom-path')
fromrev = p.getAttribute('copyfrom-rev')
e['paths'].append((path, action, frompath, fromrev))
return e
def parselog(data):
entries = []
doc = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(data)
for e in doc.getElementsByTagName('logentry'):
entries.append(parseentry(e))
return entries
def printentries(entries):
fp = sys.stdout
for e in entries:
for k in ('revision', 'author', 'msg'):
fp.write(('%s: %s\n' % (k, e[k])).encode('utf-8'))
for path, action, fpath, frev in sorted(e['paths']):
frominfo = ''
if frev:
frominfo = ' (from %s@%s)' % (fpath, frev)
p = ' %s %s%s\n' % (action, path, frominfo)
fp.write(p.encode('utf-8'))
if __name__ == '__main__':
data = sys.stdin.read()
entries = parselog(data)
printentries(entries)