diff -r 6cb548cffdf5 -r 7956893e8458 doc/gendoc.py
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/doc/gendoc.py	Tue Feb 28 00:48:49 2006 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+import sys, textwrap
+# import from the live mercurial repo
+sys.path.insert(0, "..")
+from mercurial.commands import table, globalopts
+from mercurial.i18n import gettext as _
+
+def get_desc(docstr):
+    if not docstr:
+        return "", ""
+    # sanitize
+    docstr = docstr.strip("\n")
+    docstr = docstr.rstrip()
+    shortdesc = docstr.splitlines()[0].strip()
+
+    i = docstr.find("\n")
+    if i != -1:
+        desc = docstr[i+2:]
+    else:
+        desc = "    %s" % shortdesc
+    return (shortdesc, desc)
+
+def get_opts(opts):
+    for shortopt, longopt, default, desc in opts:
+        allopts = []
+        if shortopt:
+            allopts.append("-%s" % shortopt)
+        if longopt:
+            allopts.append("--%s" % longopt)
+        desc += default and _(" (default: %s)") % default or ""
+        yield(", ".join(allopts), desc)
+
+def get_cmd(cmd):
+    d = {}
+    attr = table[cmd]
+    cmds = cmd.lstrip("^").split("|")
+
+    d['synopsis'] = attr[2]
+    d['cmd'] = cmds[0]
+    d['aliases'] = cmd.split("|")[1:]
+    d['desc'] = get_desc(attr[0].__doc__)
+    d['opts'] = list(get_opts(attr[1]))
+    return d
+
+
+def show_doc(ui):
+    def bold(s, text=""):
+        ui.write("%s\n%s\n%s\n" % (s, "="*len(s), text))
+    def underlined(s, text=""):
+        ui.write("%s\n%s\n%s\n" % (s, "-"*len(s), text))
+
+    # print options
+    underlined(_("OPTIONS"))
+    for optstr, desc in get_opts(globalopts):
+        ui.write("%s::\n    %s\n\n" % (optstr, desc))
+
+    # print cmds
+    underlined(_("COMMANDS"))
+    h = {}
+    for c, attr in table.items():
+            f = c.split("|")[0]
+            f = f.lstrip("^")
+            h[f] = c
+    cmds = h.keys()
+    cmds.sort()
+
+    for f in cmds:
+            if f.startswith("debug"): continue
+            d = get_cmd(h[f])
+            # synopsis
+            ui.write("%s::\n" % d['synopsis'].replace("hg ","", 1))
+            # description
+            ui.write("%s\n\n" % d['desc'][1])
+            # options
+            opt_output = list(d['opts'])
+            if opt_output:
+                opts_len = max([len(line[0]) for line in opt_output])
+                ui.write(_("    options:\n"))
+                for optstr, desc in opt_output:
+                    if desc:
+                        s = "%-*s  %s" % (opts_len, optstr, desc)
+                    else:
+                        s = optstr
+                    s = textwrap.fill(s, initial_indent=4 * " ",
+                                      subsequent_indent=(6 + opts_len) * " ")
+                    ui.write("%s\n" % s)
+                ui.write("\n")
+            # aliases
+            if d['aliases']:
+                ui.write(_("    aliases: %s\n\n") % " ".join(d['aliases']))
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    show_doc(sys.stdout)