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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.

  $ HGENCODING=utf-8
  $ export HGENCODING

  $ try() {
  >   hg debugrevspec --debug $@
  > }

  $ log() {
  >   hg log --template '{rev}\n' -r "$1"
  > }

  $ hg init repo
  $ cd repo

  $ try 'p1()'
  (func
    ('symbol', 'p1')
    None)
  * set:
  <baseset []>
  $ try 'p2()'
  (func
    ('symbol', 'p2')
    None)
  * set:
  <baseset []>
  $ try 'parents()'
  (func
    ('symbol', 'parents')
    None)
  * set:
  <baseset+ []>

null revision
  $ log 'p1()'
  $ log 'p2()'
  $ log 'parents()'

working dir with a single parent
  $ echo a > a
  $ hg ci -Aqm0
  $ log 'p1()'
  0
  $ log 'tag() and p1()'
  $ log 'p2()'
  $ log 'parents()'
  0
  $ log 'tag() and parents()'

merge in progress
  $ echo b > b
  $ hg ci -Aqm1
  $ hg up -q 0
  $ echo c > c
  $ hg ci -Aqm2
  $ hg merge -q
  $ log 'p1()'
  2
  $ log 'p2()'
  1
  $ log 'tag() and p2()'
  $ log 'parents()'
  1
  2

  $ cd ..