# A function to make a statement.
declaim () {
    echo
    echo ${*}
    echo "==============="
    echo
}

# A function to sleep for a bit if the environmental variable SLEEPS
# is Y
sleepies () {
  if [ "${SLEEPS}" = "Y" ]; then
    sleep ${1}
  fi
}

# A function to print the git command to be executed and then to
# execute it
git_command() {
  # Print out the command.
  echo
  echo    "git command: ${*}"

  # Some variable initialisations
  COMMANDSTRING="${*}"
  counter=0
  UNDERLINESTRING=""

  # Build UNDERLINESTRING to be a string of '-' characters the same
  # length of all the options passed in.
  while [ ${counter} -lt ${#COMMANDSTRING} ]
  do
    UNDERLINESTRING="${UNDERLINESTRING}-"
    counter=$(( ${counter} + 1 ))
  done

  # Print the pretty underline
  echo -n "             "
  echo ${UNDERLINESTRING}
  echo

  # Execute the command.
  eval ${*}
}