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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.

Ancestors of 5
4 2 0 
Ancestors of 6 and 5
3 4 2 1 0 
Ancestors of 5 and 4
4 2 0 
Ancestors of 7, stop at 6
6 
Ancestors of 7, including revs
7 6 5 3 4 2 1 0 
Ancestors of 7, 5 and 3, including revs
7 5 3 6 4 2 1 0 

Descendants of 5
7 8 
Descendants of 5 and 3
6 7 8 
Descendants of 5 and 4
5 7 8