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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.

#!/usr/bin/python
from mercurial.ui import ui
from mercurial.localrepo import localrepository
from mercurial.commands import add, commit, status

u = ui()

print '% creating repo'
repo = localrepository(u, '.', create=True)

f = open('test.py', 'w')
try:
    f.write('foo\n')
finally:
    f.close

print '% add and commit'
add(u, repo, 'test.py')
commit(u, repo, message='*')
status(u, repo, clean=True)


print '% change'
f = open('test.py', 'w')
try:
    f.write('bar\n')
finally:
    f.close()

# this would return clean instead of changed before the fix
status(u, repo, clean=True, modified=True)