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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.

running: init test1
result: None
running: add foo
result: 0
running: commit -m commit1 -d 2000-01-01 foo
result: None
running: commit -m commit2 -d 2000-01-02 foo
result: None
running: log -r 0
changeset:   0:0e4634943879
user:        test
date:        Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 2000 +0000
summary:     commit1

result: None
running: log -r tip
changeset:   1:45589e459b2e
tag:         tip
user:        test
date:        Sun Jan 02 00:00:00 2000 +0000
summary:     commit2

result: None