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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.

http://mercurial.selenic.com/bts/issue612

  $ hg init
  $ mkdir src
  $ echo a > src/a.c
  $ hg ci -Ama
  adding src/a.c

  $ hg mv src source
  moving src/a.c to source/a.c (glob)

  $ hg ci -Ammove

  $ hg co -C 0
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ echo new > src/a.c
  $ echo compiled > src/a.o
  $ hg ci -mupdate
  created new head

  $ hg status
  ? src/a.o

  $ hg merge
  merging src/a.c and source/a.c to source/a.c
  0 files updated, 1 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  (branch merge, don't forget to commit)

  $ hg status
  M source/a.c
  R src/a.c
  ? src/a.o