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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.

#require execbit

  $ hg init repo
  $ cd repo
  $ echo foo > foo
  $ chmod 644 foo
  $ hg ci -qAm '644'

  $ chmod 755 foo
  $ hg ci -qAm '755'

reverting to rev 0

  $ hg revert -a -r 0
  reverting foo
  $ hg st
  M foo
  $ hg diff --git
  diff --git a/foo b/foo
  old mode 100755
  new mode 100644

  $ cd ..