view tests/test-hg-parseurl.py @ 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.

from mercurial.hg import parseurl

def testparse(url, branch=[]):
    print '%s, branches: %r' % parseurl(url, branch)

testparse('http://example.com/no/anchor')
testparse('http://example.com/an/anchor#foo')
testparse('http://example.com/no/anchor/branches', branch=['foo'])
testparse('http://example.com/an/anchor/branches#bar', branch=['foo'])
testparse('http://example.com/an/anchor/branches-None#foo', branch=None)
testparse('http://example.com/')
testparse('http://example.com')
testparse('http://example.com#foo')