changeset 5484:07bdb5e5d08c

Update convert help text Add Mercurial as a source format, clarify that the include directive triggers the exclusion of all not explicitely included files/dirs and use MAPFILE instead of revmapfile in the text, following the short message convention.
author "Rafael Villar Burke <pachi@rvburke.com>"
date Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:09:21 +0100
parents ec2cc1dadbf7
children 8c0756f7b18b a7248da55467
files hgext/convert/__init__.py
diffstat 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) [+]
line wrap: on
line diff
--- a/hgext/convert/__init__.py	Thu Nov 01 17:15:50 2007 -0500
+++ b/hgext/convert/__init__.py	Fri Nov 02 20:09:21 2007 +0100
@@ -299,6 +299,7 @@
     """Convert a foreign SCM repository to a Mercurial one.
 
     Accepted source formats:
+    - Mercurial
     - CVS
     - Darcs
     - git
@@ -315,8 +316,8 @@
     basename of the source with '-hg' appended.  If the destination
     repository doesn't exist, it will be created.
 
-    If <revmapfile> isn't given, it will be put in a default location
-    (<dest>/.hg/shamap by default).  The <revmapfile> is a simple text
+    If <MAPFILE> isn't given, it will be put in a default location
+    (<dest>/.hg/shamap by default).  The <MAPFILE> is a simple text
     file that maps each source commit ID to the destination ID for
     that revision, like so:
     <source ID> <destination ID>
@@ -342,11 +343,12 @@
       rename from/file to/file
     
     The 'include' directive causes a file, or all files under a
-    directory, to be included in the destination repository.  The
-    'exclude' directive causes files or directories to be omitted.
-    The 'rename' directive renames a file or directory.  To rename
-    from a subdirectory into the root of the repository, use '.' as
-    the path to rename to.
+    directory, to be included in the destination repository, and the
+    exclussion of all other files and dirs not explicitely included.
+    The 'exclude' directive causes files or directories to be omitted.
+    The 'rename' directive renames a file or directory.  To rename from a
+    subdirectory into the root of the repository, use '.' as the path to
+    rename to.
     """
 
     util._encoding = 'UTF-8'