solaris: tests can't use tail -n
Solaris tail doesn't recognize the -n option. Replace the one use of it
with some inline python code, and add a test case to check-code.py.
syntax: glob
*.elc
*.orig
*.rej
*~
*.mergebackup
*.o
*.so
*.dll
*.exe
*.pyd
*.pyc
*.pyo
*$py.class
*.swp
*.prof
*.zip
\#*\#
.\#*
tests/.coverage*
tests/annotated
tests/*.err
tests/htmlcov
build
contrib/hgsh/hgsh
dist
doc/common.txt
doc/*.[0-9]
doc/*.[0-9].txt
doc/*.[0-9].gendoc.txt
doc/*.[0-9].{x,ht}ml
MANIFEST
MANIFEST.in
patches
mercurial/__version__.py
mercurial/hgpythonlib.h
mercurial.egg-info
.DS_Store
tags
cscope.*
i18n/hg.pot
locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/hg.mo
hgext/__index__.py
# files installed with a local --pure build
mercurial/base85.py
mercurial/bdiff.py
mercurial/diffhelpers.py
mercurial/mpatch.py
mercurial/osutil.py
mercurial/parsers.py
syntax: regexp
^\.pc/
^\.(pydev)?project
# hackable windows distribution additions
^hg-python
^hg.py$