view tests/test-diffdir.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
  $ touch a
  $ hg add a
  $ hg ci -m "a"

  $ echo 123 > b
  $ hg add b
  $ hg diff --nodates
  diff -r 3903775176ed b
  --- /dev/null
  +++ b/b
  @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
  +123

  $ hg diff --nodates -r tip
  diff -r 3903775176ed b
  --- /dev/null
  +++ b/b
  @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
  +123

  $ echo foo > a
  $ hg diff --nodates
  diff -r 3903775176ed a
  --- a/a
  +++ b/a
  @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
  +foo
  diff -r 3903775176ed b
  --- /dev/null
  +++ b/b
  @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
  +123

  $ hg diff -r ""
  hg: parse error: empty query
  [255]
  $ hg diff -r tip -r ""
  hg: parse error: empty query
  [255]