generate hg manpage from commands.py docstring gendoc.py is a script generating a part of the manpage (the commands help and options) from the docstring in commands.py. It avoids duplicating the doc between the doc/ directory and the docstrings. To generate the manpage, 'make doc' will create all the necessary intermediate files.

--- a/doc/Makefile	Tue Feb 28 00:46:06 2006 +0100
+++ b/doc/Makefile	Tue Feb 28 00:48:49 2006 +0100
@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@
 
 html: $(HTML)
 
+hg.1.txt: hg.1.gendoc.txt
+	touch hg.1.txt
+
+hg.1.gendoc.txt:
+	python gendoc.py > $@
+
 %: %.xml
 	xmlto man $*.xml