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Add bash_completion to contrib

Contributed by "Alexis S. L. Carvalho" <[e-mail]>

Attached is a file that implements bash completion for hg.  Just
reading it from your .bashrc should be enough to use it - I think: I'm
using the /etc/bash_completion from debian and I'm not sure whether it
sets some important option.

It gets the list of commands, aliases and options from the output of hg
help and then adds some specific stuff - e.g. completing update with
tags; pull and push with path aliases and directories, etc.

Mercurial's documentation is currently kept in ASCIIDOC format, which
is a simple plain text format that's easy to read and edit. It's also
convertible to a variety of other formats including standard UNIX man
page format and HTML.

To do this, you'll need to install ASCIIDOC:

 http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/

To generate the man page:

 asciidoc -d manpage -b docbook hg.1.txt
 xmlto man hg.1.xml

To display:

 groff -mandoc -Tascii hg.1 | more

To create the html page (without stylesheets):

 asciidoc -b html hg.1.txt