Revive commands.dispatch as a simple way to call hg from other pythons scripts. This was already used by hg-ssh and others and is really convenient if you just want a native equivalent of calling the command line version.

#!/bin/sh

hg init dir
cd dir
echo bleh > bar
hg add bar
hg ci -m 'add bar'

hg cp bar foo
echo >> bar
hg ci -m 'cp bar foo; change bar'

hg debugrename foo
hg debugindex .hg/store/data/bar.i