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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.

syntax: glob

*.elc
*.tmp
*.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
contrib/vagrant/.vagrant
dist
packages
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.*
.idea/*
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$