view tests/test-diff-newlines.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.

  $ hg init

  $ $PYTHON -c 'file("a", "wb").write("confuse str.splitlines\nembedded\rnewline\n")'
  $ hg ci -Ama -d '1 0'
  adding a

  $ echo clean diff >> a
  $ hg ci -mb -d '2 0'

  $ hg diff -r0 -r1
  diff -r 107ba6f817b5 -r 310ce7989cdc a
  --- a/a	Thu Jan 01 00:00:01 1970 +0000
  +++ b/a	Thu Jan 01 00:00:02 1970 +0000
  @@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
   confuse str.splitlines
   embedded\r (no-eol) (esc)
  newline
  +clean diff