[MERGE REQUEST] New manpage setup

John A Meinel john at arbash-meinel.com
Wed Jan 4 06:13:56 GMT 2006


James Blackwell wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 06:37:55PM -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>> James Blackwell wrote:
>>> branch: http://mercury.merconline.com/~jblack/branches/bzr-help
>>> contents: New manpage generation code, trivial doc updates
>>>
>>>
>> Can you give more of a summary? Does this change how the man page is
>> created? Like having it created from the doc strings?
>>
>> There were a lot of short comments to try and figure out what really
>> changed.
> 
> Heh. More description is appropriate.  This modification does the following: 
> 
>  * Rewrites the manpage generator (which pulled from doc strings as well)
>    to pull more documentation from the commands. Instead of just providing
>    one line summaries, the whole docstring in presented. 
> 
> 
>  * Includes the wiring to build other things as well, such as bash and
>    zshell completion, again off of the command information.
> 

Well, the man page looks good to me. The bash-completion file is empty,
but I assume that is just a work in progress.

I'm +1 on the improved man page, though.

John
=:->


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