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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.

basic:

* neither file exists
creating
* neither file still exists
* empty file x created
creating
* file x changed size
creating
* nothing changed with either file
* file x changed inode
creating
* empty file y created
creating
* file y changed size
creating
* file y changed inode
creating
* both files changed inode
creating

fakeuncacheable:

* neither file exists
creating
* neither file still exists
creating
* empty file x created
creating
* file x changed size
creating
* nothing changed with either file
creating
* file x changed inode
creating
* empty file y created
creating
* file y changed size
creating
* file y changed inode
creating
* both files changed inode
creating
repository tip rolled back to revision -1 (undo commit)
working directory now based on revision -1
repository tip rolled back to revision -1 (undo commit)
working directory now based on revision -1

setbeforeget:

* neither file exists
string set externally
* file x created
creating
string from function
* string set externally again
string 2 set externally
* file y created
creating
string from function