pull: allow a generic way to pass parameters to the pull operation
We have been feeling the need for this in extensions for quite some time. This
will be used to pass remote bookmark information around in the next changesets.
$ hg init
$ mkdir alpha
$ touch alpha/one
$ mkdir beta
$ touch beta/two
$ hg add alpha/one beta/two
$ hg ci -m "start"
$ echo 1 > alpha/one
$ echo 2 > beta/two
everything
$ hg diff --nodates
diff -r 7d5ef1aea329 alpha/one
--- a/alpha/one
+++ b/alpha/one
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+1
diff -r 7d5ef1aea329 beta/two
--- a/beta/two
+++ b/beta/two
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+2
beta only
$ hg diff --nodates beta
diff -r 7d5ef1aea329 beta/two
--- a/beta/two
+++ b/beta/two
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+2
inside beta
$ cd beta
$ hg diff --nodates .
diff -r 7d5ef1aea329 beta/two
--- a/beta/two
+++ b/beta/two
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+2
relative to beta
$ cd ..
$ hg diff --nodates --root beta
diff -r 7d5ef1aea329 two
--- a/two
+++ b/two
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+2
inside beta
$ cd beta
$ hg diff --nodates --root .
diff -r 7d5ef1aea329 two
--- a/two
+++ b/two
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+2
$ cd ..