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
mkfifo p

hg serve --stdio < p &
P=$!
(echo lock; echo addchangegroup; sleep 5) > p &
Q=$!
sleep 1
kill -HUP $P
sleep 1
ls .hg