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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.

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hg debuginstall
$ hg debuginstall
checking encoding (ascii)...
checking Python executable (*) (glob)
checking Python version (2.*) (glob)
checking Python lib (*lib*)... (glob)
checking installed modules (*mercurial)... (glob)
checking templates (*mercurial?templates)... (glob)
checking commit editor...
checking username...
no problems detected
hg debuginstall with no username
$ HGUSER= hg debuginstall
checking encoding (ascii)...
checking Python executable (*) (glob)
checking Python version (2.*) (glob)
checking Python lib (*lib*)... (glob)
checking installed modules (*mercurial)... (glob)
checking templates (*mercurial?templates)... (glob)
checking commit editor...
checking username...
no username supplied
(specify a username in your configuration file)
1 problems detected, please check your install!
[1]
path variables are expanded (~ is the same as $TESTTMP)
$ mkdir tools
$ touch tools/testeditor.exe
#if execbit
$ chmod 755 tools/testeditor.exe
#endif
$ hg debuginstall --config ui.editor=~/tools/testeditor.exe
checking encoding (ascii)...
checking Python executable (*) (glob)
checking Python version (*) (glob)
checking Python lib (*lib*)... (glob)
checking installed modules (*mercurial)... (glob)
checking templates (*mercurial?templates)... (glob)
checking commit editor...
checking username...
no problems detected