[Monotone-devel] Re: mtnopt manpage

[Lapo Luchini]

Zack Weinberg wrote:
> We need a manpage for mtnopt, if only so lintian will stop complaining
> about there not being one ;-) 

Still lacking...

> I can see what it does, but I don't
> know what the intended uses and so on are.

Same here.

OK, digging in the log to the first commit I know know a little more:

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Revision: 484bda8a6268214180bdac5dd857ab4ff4174976
Ancestor: 217d9b0e270ecc5bcbe7acb30297dee64afab8c6
Author: Richard Levitte <address@hidden>
Date: 2008-04-25T11:19:36
Branch: net.venge.monotone

Added files:
        contrib/mtnopt
Modified attrs:
        contrib/mtnopt

ChangeLog:

    * contrib/mtnopt: New script to extract values from _MTN/options
    in a form that a shell can understand.  It works in two modes, one
    that outputs shell variable definitions, suitable for operations
    such as "eval `mtnopt`", and one that simply outputs the value of
    the keys.  There are options available to say what _MTN directory
    to use as well as to specify exactly what keys shouls be output.

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