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

echo a > a
hg ci -d '0 0' -Ama

hg an a

echo "[ui]" >> $HGRCPATH
echo "strict=True" >> $HGRCPATH

hg an a
hg annotate a

echo % should succeed - up is an alias, not an abbreviation

hg up