help: scripting help topic
There are a lot of non-human consumers of Mercurial. And the challenges
and considerations for machines consuming Mercurial is significantly
different from what humans face.
I think there are enough special considerations around how machines
consume Mercurial that a dedicated help topic is warranted. I concede
the audience for this topic is probably small compared to the general
audience. However, lots of normal Mercurial users do things like create
one-off shell scripts for common workflows that I think this is useful
enough to be in the install (as opposed to, say, a wiki page - which
most users will likely never find).
This text is by no means perfect. But you have to start somewhere. I
think I did cover the important parts, though.
# invalid filenames
test-add.t
test-init.t
test-clone.t
test-contrib.t
test-hgweb-raw.t
test-walk.t
# no sockets or fifos
test-hup.t
# no hardlinks
test-hardlinks.t
test-relink.t
# exec bit problems
test-convert-bzr-114.t
test-convert-bzr-directories.t
test-convert-bzr-merges.t
test-convert-bzr-treeroot.t
test-convert-darcs.t
test-merge-tools.t
# debugstate exec bit false positives
test-dirstate.t
test-filebranch.t
test-merge-remove.t