Add a couple of more variable bindings, make all the set visual gear values optional, to allow skipping trailing params or specifying ones in the middle as nil to not set. Should make using it more convenient in simple cases.
#!/bin/sh
#HW_HG=
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
echo 'You have to supply at least one hedgewars git revision as parameter!' >&2
exit
fi
if [ -z "$HW_HG" ]; then
HW_HG="$PWD"
fi
if [ ! -d "$HW_HG/.hg" ]; then
echo 'You have to set HW_HG (inside script or env) to a repo clone OR call this script from inside the repository!' >&2
exit
fi
while [ ! -z "$1" ]; do
echo
echo
echo '---------------------------------------------------------------'
echo "$1"
echo '---------------------------------------------------------------'
url="https://github.com/hedgewars/hw/commit/$1"
echo "Checking $url ..."
echo
page=$(wget -q -O- "$url")
author=$(echo "$page" | sed -rn 's/^.*"author-name">(<[^>]*>)*([^ <]*).*/\2/ p')
if [ -z "$author" ]; then
echo 'Couldn'\''t find author! Skipping '"$1"' ...' >&2
shift
continue
fi
echo 'Found author: '"$author"
date=$(echo "$page" | sed -rn 's/^.*<time datetime="([^T]+)T([^Z]+).*/\1 \2 +0000/ p')
if [ -z "$date" ]; then
echo 'Couldn'\''t find date! Skipping '"$1"' ...' >&2
shift
continue
fi
echo 'Found date: '"$date"
echo
echo 'Checking mercurial log for matches ...'
echo
result=$(hg log -R "$HW_HG" -u "$author" -d "$date" -v -l1)
if [ -z "$result" ]; then
echo 'No match :('
shift
continue
fi
rev=$(echo "$result" | sed 's/^.*://;q')
echo 'Found match: r'"$rev"
echo 'Link: https://code.google.com/p/hedgewars/source/detail?r='"$rev"
echo
echo "$result"
# proceed to next parameter
shift
done
echo