alias: expand "$@" as list of parameters quoted individually (BC) (issue4200)
Before this patch, there was no way to pass in all the positional parameters as
separate words down to another command.
(1) $@ (without quotes) would expand to all the parameters separated by a space.
This would work fine for arguments without spaces, but arguments with spaces
in them would be split up by POSIX shells into separate words.
(2) '$@' (in single quotes) would expand to all the parameters within a pair of
single quotes. POSIX shells would then treat the entire list of arguments
as one word.
(3) "$@" (in double quotes) would expand similarly to (2).
With this patch, we expand "$@" (in double quotes) as all positional
parameters, quoted individually with util.shellquote, and separated by spaces.
Under standard field-splitting conditions, POSIX shells will tokenize each
argument into exactly one word.
This is a backwards-incompatible change, but the old behavior was arguably a
bug: Bourne-derived shells have expanded "$@" as a tokenized list of positional
parameters for a very long time. I could find this behavior specified in IEEE
Std 1003.1-2001, and this probably goes back to much further before that.
SOURCES=$(notdir $(wildcard ../mercurial/help/*.[0-9].txt))
MAN=$(SOURCES:%.txt=%)
HTML=$(SOURCES:%.txt=%.html)
GENDOC=gendoc.py ../mercurial/commands.py ../mercurial/help.py \
../mercurial/help/*.txt ../hgext/*.py ../hgext/*/__init__.py
PREFIX=/usr/local
MANDIR=$(PREFIX)/share/man
INSTALL=install -c -m 644
PYTHON=python
RSTARGS=
export HGENCODING=UTF-8
all: man html
man: $(MAN)
html: $(HTML)
common.txt $(SOURCES) $(SOURCES:%.txt=%.gendoc.txt): $(GENDOC)
${PYTHON} gendoc.py $(basename $@) > $@.tmp
mv $@.tmp $@
%: %.txt %.gendoc.txt common.txt
$(PYTHON) runrst hgmanpage $(RSTARGS) --halt warning \
--strip-elements-with-class htmlonly $*.txt $*
%.html: %.txt %.gendoc.txt common.txt
$(PYTHON) runrst html $(RSTARGS) --halt warning \
--link-stylesheet --stylesheet-path style.css $*.txt $*.html
MANIFEST: man html
# tracked files are already in the main MANIFEST
$(RM) $@
for i in $(MAN) $(HTML); do \
echo "doc/$$i" >> $@ ; \
done
install: man
for i in $(MAN) ; do \
subdir=`echo $$i | sed -n 's/^.*\.\([0-9]\)$$/man\1/p'` ; \
mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/$$subdir ; \
$(INSTALL) $$i $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/$$subdir ; \
done
clean:
$(RM) $(MAN) $(HTML) common.txt $(SOURCES) $(SOURCES:%.txt=%.gendoc.txt) MANIFEST