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.
#require svn13
$ cat <<EOF >> $HGRCPATH
> [extensions]
> mq =
> [diff]
> nodates = 1
> EOF
fn to create new repository, and cd into it
$ mkrepo() {
> hg init $1
> cd $1
> hg qinit
> }
handle svn subrepos safely
$ svnadmin create svn-repo-2499
$ SVNREPOPATH=`pwd`/svn-repo-2499/project
#if windows
$ SVNREPOURL=file:///`$PYTHON -c "import urllib, sys; sys.stdout.write(urllib.quote(sys.argv[1]))" "$SVNREPOPATH"`
#else
$ SVNREPOURL=file://`$PYTHON -c "import urllib, sys; sys.stdout.write(urllib.quote(sys.argv[1]))" "$SVNREPOPATH"`
#endif
$ mkdir -p svn-project-2499/trunk
$ svn import -m 'init project' svn-project-2499 "$SVNREPOURL"
Adding svn-project-2499/trunk (glob)
Committed revision 1.
qnew on repo w/svn subrepo
$ mkrepo repo-2499-svn-subrepo
$ svn co "$SVNREPOURL"/trunk sub
Checked out revision 1.
$ echo 'sub = [svn]sub' >> .hgsub
$ hg add .hgsub
$ hg status -S -X '**/format'
A .hgsub
$ hg qnew -m0 0.diff
$ cd sub
$ echo a > a
$ svn add a
A a
$ svn st
A* a (glob)
$ cd ..
$ hg status -S # doesn't show status for svn subrepos (yet)
$ hg qnew -m1 1.diff
abort: uncommitted changes in subrepository 'sub'
[255]
$ cd ..