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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.

  $ cat <<EOF > merge
  > import sys, os
  > print "merging for", os.path.basename(sys.argv[1])
  > EOF
  $ HGMERGE="python ../merge"; export HGMERGE

  $ hg init A1
  $ cd A1
  $ echo This is file foo1 > foo
  $ echo This is file bar1 > bar
  $ hg add foo bar
  $ hg commit -m "commit text"

  $ cd ..
  $ hg clone A1 B1
  updating to branch default
  2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ cd A1
  $ rm bar
  $ hg remove bar
  $ hg commit -m "commit test"

  $ cd ../B1
  $ echo This is file foo22 > foo
  $ hg commit -m "commit test"

  $ cd ..
  $ hg clone A1 A2
  updating to branch default
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ hg clone B1 B2
  updating to branch default
  2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ cd A1
  $ hg pull ../B1
  pulling from ../B1
  searching for changes
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files (+1 heads)
  (run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)
  $ hg merge
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  (branch merge, don't forget to commit)
  $ hg commit -m "commit test"
bar should remain deleted.
  $ hg manifest --debug
  f9b0e817f6a48de3564c6b2957687c5e7297c5a0 644   foo

  $ cd ../B2
  $ hg pull ../A2
  pulling from ../A2
  searching for changes
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 1 changesets with 0 changes to 0 files (+1 heads)
  (run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)
  $ hg merge
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  (branch merge, don't forget to commit)
  $ hg commit -m "commit test"
bar should remain deleted.
  $ hg manifest --debug
  f9b0e817f6a48de3564c6b2957687c5e7297c5a0 644   foo

  $ cd ..