# 
# patch "ChangeLog"
#  from [c2ec20ee83e66b957fc33eb389f2a27d1796647e]
#    to [6c22470118e05866034fe7125f5fd501a97d83bd]
# 
# patch "monotone.texi"
#  from [5318f542106b284227c9be027f3b66fdde71931d]
#    to [f6e0d0aba6a6e438cc906c64c1f0e8b69a2d2f83]
# 
========================================================================
--- ChangeLog	c2ec20ee83e66b957fc33eb389f2a27d1796647e
+++ ChangeLog	6c22470118e05866034fe7125f5fd501a97d83bd
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 2005-11-10  Timothy Brownawell  <address@hidden>
 
+	* monotone.texi: document parse_basicio in the
+	"Additional Lua Functions" section
+
+2005-11-10  Timothy Brownawell  <address@hidden>
+
 	* testsuite.at: Several MINHOOKS_* macros that use the standard hooks
 	and only load predefined hooks about passphrase and rng.
 	* tests/t_netsync_permissions, tests/t_netsync_read_permissions: use
========================================================================
--- monotone.texi	5318f542106b284227c9be027f3b66fdde71931d
+++ monotone.texi	f6e0d0aba6a6e438cc906c64c1f0e8b69a2d2f83
@@ -6374,6 +6374,37 @@
 process.
 The exit code is meaningful only if the result value is 0.
 
address@hidden parse_basicio(@var{data})
+
+Parse the string @var{data}, which should be in basic_io format. It returns nil
+if it can't parse the string; otherwise it returns a table. This will be a list
+of all statements, with each entry being a table having a "name" element that is
+the symbol beginning the statement and a "values" element that is a list of all
+the arguments.
+
+For example, given this as input:
+
address@hidden
address@hidden
+thingy "foo" "bar"
+thingy "baz"
+spork
+frob "oops"
address@hidden group
address@hidden smallexample
+
+The output table will be:
address@hidden
address@hidden
address@hidden
+   1 = @{ name = "thingy", args = @{ 1 = "foo", 2 = "bar" @} @},
+   2 = @{ name = "thingy", args = @{ 1 = "baz" @} @},
+   3 = @{ name = "spork", args = @{ @} @},
+   4 = @{ name = "frob", args = @{ 1 = "oops" @} @}
address@hidden
address@hidden group
address@hidden smallexample
+
 @end ftable