annotate doc/hg.1.txt @ 12781:0d09991f91ee

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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2 hg
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5 ---------------------------------------
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6 Mercurial source code management system
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9 :Author: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
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10 :Organization: Mercurial
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11 :Manual section: 1
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12 :Manual group: Mercurial Manual
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22 **hg** *command* [*option*]... [*argument*]...
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26 The **hg** command provides a command line interface to the Mercurial
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63 ``/etc/mercurial/hgrc``, ``$HOME/.hgrc``, ``.hg/hgrc``
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64 This file contains defaults and configuration. Values in
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65 ``.hg/hgrc`` override those in ``$HOME/.hgrc``, and these override
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66 settings made in the global ``/etc/mercurial/hgrc`` configuration.
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67 See |hgrc(5)|_ for details of the contents and format of these
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76 Probably lots, please post them to the mailing list (see Resources_
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97 Copyright (C) 2005-2010 Matt Mackall.
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98 Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General
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99 Public License version 2 or any later version.
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101 .. include:: common.txt