TK Soh noticed that the awk that ships with Solaris doesn't allow you
to define new functions. According to
http://www.shelldorado.com/articles/awkcompat.html
it looks like it also doesn't have some other stuff that we were using,
like deletion of an array element and gsub.
Rewrite the parsing of hg --debug help to work around that. This
version doesn't filter aliases that are simple abbreviations for debug
commands (not a big problem, since there are none right now).
- use awk to parse the output of hg help.
- print one completion candidate per line
- print the debug commands after regular commands
(this eases the shell side of the parsing)
- don't print aliases that are simple abbreviations
(e.g. up/update, id/identify)
- Use "hg status -n" option instead of cut command.
- Sort status flags accoring to "hg status --help"
- Show deleted files instead of "hg remove"d for "hg remove"
hg status will now show "R filename" for "hg rm"ed files and
"! filename" for files which were deleted manually.
Manually deleted files are considered unmodified.
The current bash completion script is quite painful in conjuntion with
deep directory trees because it adds a space after each successful
directory completion. Eg. "hg clone /ho<tab>" is completed to "hg clone
/home " when what you really want is "hg clone /home/" (assuming the
complete path to the repository looks like /home/foo/hg...).
That's because the 'complete' command does not know about the type of
completion it receives from the _hg shell function. When only a single
completion is returned, it assumes completion is complete and tells
readline to add a trailing space. This behaviour is usually wanted, but
not in the case of directory completion.
I've attached a patch that circumvents this problem by only returning
successful completions for directories that contain a .hg subdirectory.
If no repositories are found, no completions are returned either, and
bash falls back to ordinary (filename) completion. I find this behaviour
a lot less annoying than the current one.
Alternative: Use option nospace for the 'complete' command and let _hg
itself take care of adding a trailing space where appropriate. That's a
far more intrusive change, though.
To be used in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys with the "command" option, see sshd(8):
command="hg-ssh path/to/repo1 /path/to/repo2 ~/repo3 ~user/repo4" ssh-dss ...
(probably together with these other useful options:
no-port-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding)
This allows pull/push over ssh to to the repositories given as arguments.
If all your repositories are subdirectories of a common directory, you can
allow shorter paths with:
command="cd path/to/my/repositories && hg-ssh repo1 subdir/repo2"
File completers now correctly deal with filenames that contain spaces.
The completers also use 'hg status .' so they'll work correctly when the
default behaviour changes.
