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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.

  $ echo 'raise Exception("bit bucket overflow")' > badext.py
  $ abspathexc=`pwd`/badext.py

  $ cat >baddocext.py <<EOF
  > """
  > baddocext is bad
  > """
  > EOF
  $ abspathdoc=`pwd`/baddocext.py

  $ cat <<EOF >> $HGRCPATH
  > [extensions]
  > gpg =
  > hgext.gpg =
  > badext = $abspathexc
  > baddocext = $abspathdoc
  > badext2 =
  > EOF

  $ hg -q help help 2>&1 |grep extension
  *** failed to import extension badext from $TESTTMP/badext.py: bit bucket overflow
  *** failed to import extension badext2: No module named badext2

show traceback

  $ hg -q help help --traceback 2>&1 | egrep ' extension|^Exception|Traceback|ImportError'
  *** failed to import extension badext from $TESTTMP/badext.py: bit bucket overflow
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  Exception: bit bucket overflow
  *** failed to import extension badext2: No module named badext2
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  ImportError: No module named badext2

names of extensions failed to load can be accessed via extensions.notloaded()

  $ cat <<EOF > showbadexts.py
  > from mercurial import cmdutil, commands, extensions
  > cmdtable = {}
  > command = cmdutil.command(cmdtable)
  > @command('showbadexts', norepo=True)
  > def showbadexts(ui, *pats, **opts):
  >     ui.write('BADEXTS: %s\n' % ' '.join(sorted(extensions.notloaded())))
  > EOF
  $ hg --config extensions.badexts=showbadexts.py showbadexts 2>&1 | grep '^BADEXTS'
  BADEXTS: badext badext2

show traceback for ImportError of hgext.name if debug is set
(note that --debug option isn't applied yet when loading extensions)

  $ (hg -q help help --traceback --config ui.debug=True 2>&1) \
  > | grep -v '^ ' \
  > | egrep 'extension..[^p]|^Exception|Traceback|ImportError|not import'
  *** failed to import extension badext from $TESTTMP/badext.py: bit bucket overflow
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  Exception: bit bucket overflow
  could not import hgext.badext2 (No module named *badext2): trying badext2 (glob)
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  ImportError: No module named *badext2 (glob)
  could not import hgext3rd.badext2 (No module named *badext2): trying badext2 (glob)
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  ImportError: No module named *badext2 (glob)
  *** failed to import extension badext2: No module named badext2
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  ImportError: No module named badext2

confirm that there's no crash when an extension's documentation is bad

  $ hg help --keyword baddocext
  *** failed to import extension badext from $TESTTMP/badext.py: bit bucket overflow
  *** failed to import extension badext2: No module named badext2
  Topics:
  
   extensions Using Additional Features