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help: teach loaddoc to load from a different directory

The help system currently only supports showing help topics from a
single directory. We'll need to teach it to show results from
different directories in order to show the internals topics.

The first step is to teach loaddoc() to load documentation from
a sub-directory.

# node.py - basic nodeid manipulation for mercurial
#
# Copyright 2005, 2006 Matt Mackall <[e-mail]>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

from __future__ import absolute_import

import binascii

# This ugly style has a noticeable effect in manifest parsing
hex = binascii.hexlify
bin = binascii.unhexlify

nullrev = -1
nullid = "\0" * 20
nullhex = hex(nullid)

# pseudo identifiers for working directory
# (they are experimental, so don't add too many dependencies on them)
wdirrev = 0x7fffffff
wdirid = "\xff" * 20

def short(node):
    return hex(node[:6])