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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.

% lazy ancestor set for [], stoprev = 0, inclusive = False
membership: []
iteration:  []
% lazy ancestor set for [11, 13], stoprev = 0, inclusive = False
membership: [7, 8, 3, 4, 1, 0]
iteration:  [3, 7, 8, 1, 4, 0, 2]
% lazy ancestor set for [1, 3], stoprev = 0, inclusive = False
membership: [1, 0]
iteration:  [0, 1]
% lazy ancestor set for [11, 13], stoprev = 0, inclusive = True
membership: [11, 13, 7, 8, 3, 4, 1, 0]
iteration:  [11, 13, 3, 7, 8, 1, 4, 0, 2]
% lazy ancestor set for [11, 13], stoprev = 6, inclusive = False
membership: [7, 8]
iteration:  [7, 8]
% lazy ancestor set for [11, 13], stoprev = 6, inclusive = True
membership: [11, 13, 7, 8]
iteration:  [11, 13, 7, 8]