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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.

test command parsing and dispatch

  $ hg init a
  $ cd a

Redundant options used to crash (issue436):
  $ hg -v log -v
  $ hg -v log -v x

  $ echo a > a
  $ hg ci -Ama
  adding a

Missing arg:

  $ hg cat
  hg cat: invalid arguments
  hg cat [OPTION]... FILE...
  
  output the current or given revision of files
  
  options ([+] can be repeated):
  
   -o --output FORMAT       print output to file with formatted name
   -r --rev REV             print the given revision
      --decode              apply any matching decode filter
   -I --include PATTERN [+] include names matching the given patterns
   -X --exclude PATTERN [+] exclude names matching the given patterns
  
  (use "hg cat -h" to show more help)
  [255]

[defaults]

  $ hg cat a
  a
  $ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<EOF
  > [defaults]
  > cat = -r null
  > EOF
  $ hg cat a
  a: no such file in rev 000000000000
  [1]

  $ cd "$TESTTMP"

OSError "No such file or directory" / "The system cannot find the path
specified" should include filename even when it is empty

  $ hg -R a archive ''
  abort: *: '' (glob)
  [255]

#if no-outer-repo

No repo:

  $ hg cat
  abort: no repository found in '$TESTTMP' (.hg not found)!
  [255]

#endif