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gendoc: automatically create help for default extensions. Adds a section in the hg.1 manpage and corresponding hg.1.html file. Each extension is listed with its module docstring, followed by the commands defined by that extendsion. Creates help for extensions by extracting doc strings from the extension modules and its commands.
author Erik Zielke <ez@aragost.com>
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1 Mercurial's documentation is kept in reStructuredText format, which is
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2 a simple plain text format that's easy to read and edit:
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4 http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
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6 It's also convertible to a variety of other formats including standard
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7 UNIX man page format and HTML. You'll need to install Docutils:
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9 http://docutils.sourceforge.net/
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11 Use the Makefile in this directory to generate the man and HTML pages.