view tests/test-diff-copy-depth.t @ 25881:9de443515f1d stable

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.

  $ for i in aaa zzz; do
  >     hg init t
  >     cd t
  > 
  >     echo
  >     echo "-- With $i"
  > 
  >     touch file
  >     hg add file
  >     hg ci -m "Add"
  > 
  >     hg cp file $i
  >     hg ci -m "a -> $i"
  > 
  >     hg cp $i other-file
  >     echo "different" >> $i
  >     hg ci -m "$i -> other-file"
  > 
  >     hg cp other-file somename
  > 
  >     echo "Status":
  >     hg st -C
  >     echo
  >     echo "Diff:"
  >     hg diff -g
  > 
  >     cd ..
  >     rm -rf t
  > done
  
  -- With aaa
  Status:
  A somename
    other-file
  
  Diff:
  diff --git a/other-file b/somename
  copy from other-file
  copy to somename
  
  -- With zzz
  Status:
  A somename
    other-file
  
  Diff:
  diff --git a/other-file b/somename
  copy from other-file
  copy to somename