Tune a bit the extdiff toplevel comments/samples. * Capitalize the first letter of all sentences * Add an example for GNU diff(1) 'context diff' mode. * Explain the requirement for separate cmd.xxx and opts.xxx options in .hgrc, which hopefully will guard against users trying to add: [extdiff] # Add a new Mercurial command called `cdiff', which calls # GNU diff(1) in 'context diff' mode. cmd.cdiff = diff -Nprc5 which fails for recent crew builds with: $ hg cdiff . making snapshot of 1 files from rev 07dc4a569f4e making snapshot of 1 files from working dir diff -Nprc5: not found The correct way to do this is by separating the cmd.cdiff and opts.cdiff parts like this: [extdiff] # Add a new Mercurial command called `cdiff', which calls # GNU diff(1) in 'context diff' mode. cmd.cdiff = diff opts.cdiff = -Nprc5 so add it as a new example and explicitly describe it in the extdiff comments.

Mercurial's documentation is currently kept in ASCIIDOC format, which
is a simple plain text format that's easy to read and edit. It's also
convertible to a variety of other formats including standard UNIX man
page format and HTML.

To do this, you'll need to install ASCIIDOC:

 http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/

To generate the man page:

 asciidoc -d manpage -b docbook hg.1.txt
 xmlto man hg.1.xml

To display:

 groff -mandoc -Tascii hg.1 | more

To create the html page (without stylesheets):

 asciidoc -b html hg.1.txt