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.
$ hg init outer
$ cd outer
$ echo '[paths]' >> .hg/hgrc
$ echo 'default = http://example.net/' >> .hg/hgrc
hg debugsub with no remapping
$ echo 'sub = libfoo' > .hgsub
$ hg add .hgsub
$ hg debugsub
path sub
source libfoo
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hg debugsub with remapping
$ echo '[subpaths]' >> .hg/hgrc
$ printf 'http://example.net/lib(.*) = C:\\libs\\\\1-lib\\\n' >> .hg/hgrc
$ hg debugsub
path sub
source C:\libs\foo-lib\
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test cumulative remapping, the $HGRCPATH file is loaded first
$ echo '[subpaths]' >> $HGRCPATH
$ echo 'libfoo = libbar' >> $HGRCPATH
$ hg debugsub
path sub
source C:\libs\bar-lib\
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test absolute source path -- testing with a URL is important since
standard os.path.join wont treat that as an absolute path
$ echo 'abs = http://example.net/abs' > .hgsub
$ hg debugsub
path abs
source http://example.net/abs
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$ echo 'abs = /abs' > .hgsub
$ hg debugsub
path abs
source /abs
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test bad subpaths pattern
$ cat > .hg/hgrc <<EOF
> [subpaths]
> .* = \1
> EOF
$ hg debugsub
abort: bad subrepository pattern in $TESTTMP/outer/.hg/hgrc:2: invalid group reference (glob)
[255]
$ cd ..