add news item for myrepos 1.20130826

[code/myrepos.git] / webcheckout

diff --git a/webcheckout b/webcheckout
index 47b3bb4a31624415ac93f2bbb2ca34f663d93215..e48d9de34dd9ed6ecd2fe6d8fb824711edc31e54 100755 (executable)
--- a/webcheckout
+++ b/webcheckout
@@ -35,25 +35,33 @@ anonymous repositories when possible. If you have an account that
 allows you to use authenticated repositories, you might want to use this
 option.
 
-=item -n
+=item --no-act, -n
 
 Do not actually check anything out, just print out the commands that would
 be run to check out the repositories.
 
-=item -q
+=item --quiet, -q
 
 Quiet mode. Do not print out the commands being run. (The VCS commands
 may still be noisy however.)
 
 =back
 
+=head1 PREREQUISITES
+
+To use this program you will need lots of VCS programs installed,
+obviously. It also depends on the perl LWP and HTML::Parser modules.
+
+If the perl URI module is installed, webcheckout can heuristically guess
+what you mean by partial URLs, such as "kitenet.net/~joey"'
+
 =head1 AUTHOR
 
 Copyright 2009 Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
 
 Licensed under the GNU GPL version 2 or higher.
 
-This program is included in mr <http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/mr/>
+This program is included in myrepos <http://myrepos.branchable.com/>
 
 =cut
 
@@ -111,6 +119,11 @@ sub getopts {
        $url=shift @ARGV;
        $destdir=shift @ARGV;
 
+       eval q{use URI::Heuristic};
+       if (! $@) {
+               $url=URI::Heuristic::uf_uristr($url);
+       }
+
        if ($noact) {
                $quiet=0;
        }