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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.

  $ cat <<EOF > merge
  > import sys, os
  > print "merging for", os.path.basename(sys.argv[1])
  > EOF
  $ HGMERGE="python ../merge"; export HGMERGE

  $ hg init A1
  $ cd A1
  $ echo This is file foo1 > foo
  $ echo This is file bar1 > bar
  $ hg add foo bar
  $ hg commit -m "commit text"

  $ cd ..
  $ hg clone A1 B1
  updating to branch default
  2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ cd A1
  $ rm bar
  $ hg remove bar
  $ hg commit -m "commit test"

  $ cd ../B1
  $ echo This is file foo22 > foo
  $ hg commit -m "commit test"

  $ cd ..
  $ hg clone A1 A2
  updating to branch default
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ hg clone B1 B2
  updating to branch default
  2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ cd A1
  $ hg pull ../B1
  pulling from ../B1
  searching for changes
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files (+1 heads)
  (run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)
  $ hg merge
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  (branch merge, don't forget to commit)
  $ hg commit -m "commit test"
bar should remain deleted.
  $ hg manifest --debug
  f9b0e817f6a48de3564c6b2957687c5e7297c5a0 644   foo

  $ cd ../B2
  $ hg pull ../A2
  pulling from ../A2
  searching for changes
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 1 changesets with 0 changes to 0 files (+1 heads)
  (run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)
  $ hg merge
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  (branch merge, don't forget to commit)
  $ hg commit -m "commit test"
bar should remain deleted.
  $ hg manifest --debug
  f9b0e817f6a48de3564c6b2957687c5e7297c5a0 644   foo

  $ cd ..