clarify

[code/myrepos.git] / mr

diff --git a/mr b/mr
index 7c4ff30b56dcc36f19339773e464d430ea3b830a..2b5c65643a5962c6b05258098f2c84bfdbc88ca9 100755 (executable)
--- a/mr
+++ b/mr
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ B<mr> [options] commit [-m "message"]
 
 B<mr> [options] diff
 
+B<mr> [options] log
+
 B<mr> [options] action [params ...]
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
@@ -64,7 +66,11 @@ The optional -m parameter allows specifying a commit message.
 
 Show a diff of uncommitted changes.
 
-=item list
+=item log
+
+Show the commit log.
+
+=item list (or ls)
 
 List the repositories that mr will act on.
 
@@ -94,7 +100,7 @@ the current working directory.
 
 =item -c mrconfig
 
-Use the specified mrconfig file, instead of looking for on in your home
+Use the specified mrconfig file, instead of looking for one in your home
 directory.
 
 =item -v
@@ -132,16 +138,16 @@ If the "chain" parameter is set and its command returns nonzero, then B<mr>
 will try to load a .mrconfig file from the root of the repository. (You
 should avoid chaining from repositories with untrusted committers.) The
 "lib" parameter can specify some shell code that will be run before each
-command, this can be a useful way to define shell functions other commands
-can use.
+command, this can be a useful way to define shell functions for other commands
+to use.
 
 The "default" section allows setting up default handlers for each action,
 and is overridden by the contents of other sections. mr contains default
 handlers for the "update", "status", and "commit" actions, so normally
 you only need to specify what to do for "checkout".
 
-The "alias" section allows adding aliases for commands. Each parameter
-is an alias, and its value is the command to run.
+The "alias" section allows adding aliases for actions. Each parameter
+is an alias, and its value is the action to use.
 
 For example:
 
@@ -219,8 +225,13 @@ if (! exists $knownactions{$action}) {
                if (@matches == 1) {
                        $action=$matches[0];
                }
+               elsif (@matches == 0) {
+                       die "mr: unknown action \"$action\" (known actions: ".
+                               join(", ", sort keys %knownactions).")\n";
+               }
                else {
-                       die "mr: ambiguous action \"$action\" (matches @matches)\n";
+                       die "mr: ambiguous action \"$action\" (matches: ".
+                               join(", ", @matches).")\n";
                }
        }
 }
@@ -303,7 +314,12 @@ sub action {
                push @skipped, $dir;
        }
        else {
-               print "mr $action: $dir\n";
+               if (! $nochdir) {
+                       print "mr $action: $dir\n";
+               }
+               else {
+                       print "mr $action: $dir (in subdir $directory)\n";
+               }
                my $command="set -e; ".$lib.
                        "my_action(){ $config{$topdir}{$subdir}{$action} ; }; my_action ".
                        join(" ", map { s/\//\/\//g; s/"/\"/g; '"'.$_.'"' } @ARGV);
@@ -450,6 +466,7 @@ __DATA__
 [alias]
        co = checkout
        ci = commit
+       ls = list
 [default]
 lib = \
        error() { \
@@ -488,6 +505,14 @@ diff = \
        else \
                error "unknown repo type"; \
        fi
+log = \
+       if [ -d "$MR_REPO"/.svn ]; then \
+               svn log"$@"; \
+       elif [ -d "$MR_REPO"/.git ]; then \
+               git log "$@"; \
+       else \
+               error "unknown repo type"; \
+       fi
 list = true
 help = \
        if [ ! -e "$MR_PATH" ]; then \