[PATCH 0 of 8] extensions: overhaul on descriptions

[Martin Geisler]

Cédric Duval <cedricduval at free.fr> writes:

> This patch series improves the handling of extensions help texts, in
> particular:
>
>  - patches 1 to 5: refactoring, and paving the way for the following
>    patches, progressively moving code into a new module extdoc used
>    both by hg and external tools
>
>  - patches 6 and 7: support for a pre-processed list of extensions, as a
>    fallback in case descriptions can't be fetched at runtime (issue1708)

While looking at the patches I began wondering how much they actually
change. It turns out to be less than I expected:

% hg diff -r qbase:qtip | diffstat
 .hgignore               |    1 
 Makefile                |   10 ++++++--
 doc/gendoc.py           |   13 ++++++++++-
 mercurial/extdoc.py     |   40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 mercurial/extensions.py |   56 +++++++++++++-----------------------------------
 setup.py                |   22 ++++++++++++++++++
 6 files changed, 99 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)


I think I would prefer if some of the refactor-first-then-move patches
were folded together into a move-and-refactor patch. But maybe that's
just me?

>  - patch 8: new generated section in the hg.1 presenting each extension

After asking a ton of questions in my other mails, let me just finish by
saying that it actually works... :-) It's very cool to have a
description of all the extensions in the hg.1 man page.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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