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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""Script to commit the doc build outputs into the github-pages repo.
+
+Use:
+
+  gh-pages.py [tag]
+
+If no tag is given, the current output of 'git describe' is used.  If given,
+that is how the resulting directory will be named.
+
+In practice, you should use either actual clean tags from a current build or
+something like 'current' as a stable URL for the most current version of the """
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Imports
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+import os
+import re
+import shutil
+import sys
+from os import chdir as cd
+from os.path import join as pjoin
+
+from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, CalledProcessError, check_call
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Globals
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+pages_dir = 'gh-pages'
+html_dir = 'build/html'
+pdf_dir = 'build/latex'
+pages_repo = 'git@github.com:holtzhau/scikits.image-doc.git'
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Functions
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+def sh(cmd):
+    """Execute command in a subshell, return status code."""
+    return check_call(cmd, shell=True)
+
+
+def sh2(cmd):
+    """Execute command in a subshell, return stdout.
+
+    Stderr is unbuffered from the subshell.x"""
+    p = Popen(cmd, stdout=PIPE, shell=True)
+    out = p.communicate()[0]
+    retcode = p.returncode
+    if retcode:
+        print out.rstrip()
+        raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
+    else:
+        return out.rstrip()
+
+
+def sh3(cmd):
+    """Execute command in a subshell, return stdout, stderr
+
+    If anything appears in stderr, print it out to sys.stderr"""
+    p = Popen(cmd, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE, shell=True)
+    out, err = p.communicate()
+    retcode = p.returncode
+    if retcode:
+        raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
+    else:
+        return out.rstrip(), err.rstrip()
+
+
+def init_repo(path):
+    """clone the gh-pages repo if we haven't already."""
+    sh("git clone %s %s"%(pages_repo, path))
+    here = os.getcwd()
+    cd(path)
+    sh('git checkout gh-pages')
+    cd(here)
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Script starts
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    # The tag can be given as a positional argument
+    try:
+        tag = sys.argv[1]
+    except IndexError:
+        try:
+            #tag = sh2('git describe ')
+            tag = sh2('git describe --tags')
+        except CalledProcessError:
+            tag = "dev"   # Fallback
+    
+    startdir = os.getcwd()
+    if not os.path.exists(pages_dir):
+        # init the repo
+        init_repo(pages_dir)
+    else:
+        # ensure up-to-date before operating
+        cd(pages_dir)
+        sh('git checkout gh-pages')
+        sh('git pull')
+        cd(startdir)
+
+    dest = pjoin(pages_dir, tag)
+    # don't `make html` here, because gh-pages already depends on html in Makefile
+    # sh('make html')
+    # This is pretty unforgiving: we unconditionally nuke the destination
+    # directory, and then copy the html tree in there
+    shutil.rmtree(dest, ignore_errors=True)
+    shutil.copytree(html_dir, dest)
+    #shutil.copy(pjoin(pdf_dir, 'scikits.image.pdf'), pjoin(dest, 'scikits.image.pdf'))
+
+    try:
+        cd(pages_dir)
+        status = sh2('git status | head -1')
+        branch = re.match('\# On branch (.*)$', status).group(1)
+        if branch != 'gh-pages':
+            e = 'On %r, git branch is %r, MUST be "gh-pages"' % (pages_dir,
+                                                                 branch)
+            raise RuntimeError(e)
+
+        sh('git add %s' % tag)
+        sh2('git commit -m"Updated doc release: %s"' % tag)
+
+        print 'Most recent 3 commits:'
+        sys.stdout.flush()
+        sh('git --no-pager log --oneline HEAD~1..')
+    finally:
+        cd(startdir)
+
+    print
+    print 'Now verify the build in: %r' % dest
+    print "If everything looks good, 'git push'"