tests/readlink.py

import: --no-commit should update .hg/last-message.txt

The patch parser goes through all of that trouble extracting the
commit message from the patch file.  It seems such a waste not to
use it.

#!/usr/bin/env python

import errno, os, sys

for f in sys.argv[1:]:
    try:
        print f, '->', os.readlink(f)
    except OSError, err:
        if err.errno != errno.EINVAL:
            raise
        print f, 'not a symlink'

sys.exit(0)