annotate tests/bzr-definitions @ 25881:9de443515f1d stable

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.

# this file holds the definitions that are used in various bzr tests

"$TESTDIR/hghave" bzr || exit 80

TERM=dumb; export TERM
echo '[extensions]' >> $HGRCPATH
echo 'convert = ' >> $HGRCPATH

glog()
{
    hg log -G --template '{rev}@{branch} "{desc|firstline}" files: {files}\n' "$@"
}

manifest()
{
    echo "% manifest of $2"
    hg -R $1 manifest -v -r $2
}