hgext/children.py

extensions: improve the consistency of synopses

Trying as much as possible to consistently:
 - use a present tense predicate followed by a direct object
 - verb referring directly to the functionality provided
   (ie. not "add command that does this" but simple "do that")
 - keep simple and to the point, leaving details for the long help
   (width is tight, possibly even more so for translations)

Thanks to timeless, Martin Geisler, Rafael Villar Burke, Dan Villiom
Podlaski Christiansen and others for the helpful suggestions.

# Mercurial extension to provide the 'hg children' command
#
# Copyright 2007 by Intevation GmbH <[e-mail]>
#
# Author(s):
# Thomas Arendsen Hein <[e-mail]>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2, incorporated herein by reference.

'''display children changesets'''

from mercurial import cmdutil
from mercurial.commands import templateopts
from mercurial.i18n import _


def children(ui, repo, file_=None, **opts):
    """show the children of the given or working directory revision

    Print the children of the working directory's revisions. If a
    revision is given via -r/--rev, the children of that revision will
    be printed. If a file argument is given, revision in which the
    file was last changed (after the working directory revision or the
    argument to --rev if given) is printed.
    """
    rev = opts.get('rev')
    if file_:
        ctx = repo.filectx(file_, changeid=rev)
    else:
        ctx = repo[rev]

    displayer = cmdutil.show_changeset(ui, repo, opts)
    for cctx in ctx.children():
        displayer.show(cctx)


cmdtable = {
    "children":
        (children,
         [('r', 'rev', '', _('show children of the specified revision')),
         ] + templateopts,
         _('hg children [-r REV] [FILE]')),
}