Further help improvements: Show command aliases in 'hg help something', unless in quiet mode. Show short command description with 'hg help -q something'. Show global options in verbose mode of command help. State that Mercurial is a Distributed SCM.

#!/bin/sh

hg init
echo 123 > a
hg add a
hg commit -m "first" -d "0 0" a
mkdir sub
echo 321 > sub/b
hg add sub/b
hg commit -m "second" -d "0 0" sub/b
cat sub/b
hg co 0
cat sub/b
ls sub

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