Re: different strains of CVS (was Re: cvs 1.11.2 server hungs on sigpipe)

[Derek Robert Price]

Larry Jones wrote:

> It was documented in the manual, just not in the man page.  One of these
> days, we really need to implement a scheme for generating the man pages
> automatically from the texinfo manual.  In the meantime, I've applied
> your patch.
>  

How much information do you want in it?  I attached a script to issue #3 
<http://ccvs.cvshome.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3> from the mtools 
project which does something like this based on simple tags in texinfo 
comments which cause it to slurp whole sections of the texinfo manual 
and turn it into a man page.  All that is really required at this point 
is probably tagging the correct nodes and tweaking the script.

There are some notes on that issue about help2man, but I think that 
wouldn't be as complete - I believe all the usages are in cvs.texinfo in 
some fairly concise form in addition to the pages of explanation.

I still think about this once in a while.  It just never seems as urgent 
as the other things I have going.  If anyone else wants to take a shot 
at it, they can feel free.  Otherwise I'll probably get to it eventually.

Derek

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