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help: internals topic for wire protocol

The Mercurial wire protocol is under-documented. This includes a lack
of source docstrings and comments as well as pages on the official
wiki.

This patch adds the beginnings of "internals" documentation on the
wire protocol.

The documentation should have nearly complete coverage on the
lower-level parts of the protocol, such as the different transport
mechanims, how commands and arguments are sent, capabilities, and,
of course, the commands themselves.

As part of writing this documentation, I discovered a number of
deficiencies in the protocol and bugs in the implementation. I've
started sending patches for some of the issues. I hope to send a lot
more.

This patch starts with the scaffolding for a new internals page.

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# simple script to be used in hooks
#
# put something like this in the repo .hg/hgrc:
#
#     [hooks]
#     changegroup = python "$TESTDIR/printenv.py" <hookname> [exit] [output]
#
#   - <hookname> is a mandatory argument (e.g. "changegroup")
#   - [exit] is the exit code of the hook (default: 0)
#   - [output] is the name of the output file (default: use sys.stdout)
#              the file will be opened in append mode.
#
from __future__ import absolute_import
import os
import sys

try:
    import msvcrt
    msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdin.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
    msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdout.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
    msvcrt.setmode(sys.stderr.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
except ImportError:
    pass

exitcode = 0
out = sys.stdout

name = sys.argv[1]
if len(sys.argv) > 2:
    exitcode = int(sys.argv[2])
    if len(sys.argv) > 3:
        out = open(sys.argv[3], "ab")

# variables with empty values may not exist on all platforms, filter
# them now for portability sake.
env = [(k, v) for k, v in os.environ.iteritems()
       if k.startswith("HG_") and v]
env.sort()

out.write("%s hook: " % name)
if os.name == 'nt':
    filter = lambda x: x.replace('\\', '/')
else:
    filter = lambda x: x
vars = ["%s=%s" % (k, filter(v)) for k, v in env]
out.write(" ".join(vars))
out.write("\n")
out.close()

sys.exit(exitcode)