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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.

# A dummy extension that installs an hgweb command that throws an Exception.

from mercurial.hgweb import webcommands

def raiseerror(web, req, tmpl):
    '''Dummy web command that raises an uncaught Exception.'''

    # Simulate an error after partial response.
    if 'partialresponse' in req.form:
        req.respond(200, 'text/plain')
        req.write('partial content\n')

    raise AttributeError('I am an uncaught error!')

def extsetup(ui):
    setattr(webcommands, 'raiseerror', raiseerror)
    webcommands.__all__.append('raiseerror')