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help: scripting help topic There are a lot of non-human consumers of Mercurial. And the challenges and considerations for machines consuming Mercurial is significantly different from what humans face. I think there are enough special considerations around how machines consume Mercurial that a dedicated help topic is warranted. I concede the audience for this topic is probably small compared to the general audience. However, lots of normal Mercurial users do things like create one-off shell scripts for common workflows that I think this is useful enough to be in the install (as opposed to, say, a wiki page - which most users will likely never find). This text is by no means perfect. But you have to start somewhere. I think I did cover the important parts, though.
author Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com>
date Sat, 18 Jul 2015 17:10:28 -0700
parents 2a8d8b4097c8
children ff12a6c63c3d
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--- a/tests/test-help.t	Wed Jul 29 21:31:56 2015 -0400
+++ b/tests/test-help.t	Sat Jul 18 17:10:28 2015 -0700
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@
    phases        Working with Phases
    revisions     Specifying Single Revisions
    revsets       Specifying Revision Sets
+   scripting     Using Mercurial from scripts and automation
    subrepos      Subrepositories
    templating    Template Usage
    urls          URL Paths
@@ -192,6 +193,7 @@
    phases        Working with Phases
    revisions     Specifying Single Revisions
    revsets       Specifying Revision Sets
+   scripting     Using Mercurial from scripts and automation
    subrepos      Subrepositories
    templating    Template Usage
    urls          URL Paths
@@ -740,6 +742,7 @@
    phases        Working with Phases
    revisions     Specifying Single Revisions
    revsets       Specifying Revision Sets
+   scripting     Using Mercurial from scripts and automation
    subrepos      Subrepositories
    templating    Template Usage
    urls          URL Paths
@@ -1406,6 +1409,13 @@
   Specifying Revision Sets
   </td></tr>
   <tr><td>
+  <a href="/help/scripting">
+  scripting
+  </a>
+  </td><td>
+  Using Mercurial from scripts and automation
+  </td></tr>
+  <tr><td>
   <a href="/help/subrepos">
   subrepos
   </a>