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findcopies: fix rename bug We've fiddled with this line several times, and an old bug has reappeared from it. Let's take a peek at the history. The original "or" (rev 3674, in 0.9.2 and 0.9.3): http://www.selenic.com/hg/rev/9103dab96093 Then I changed it to an "and" to fix a bug (rev 4304): http://www.selenic.com/hg/rev/4787e2b0dd03 Then for reasons now lost in the mists of time, I dropped half (rev 4399): http://www.selenic.com/hg/rev/93652499bed3 Then we added back the "or" (rev 4416, in 0.9.4): http://www.selenic.com/hg/rev/bb1800a7d7e1 So it seems it ought to be "and".
author Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
date Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:47:22 -0500
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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 html4 hg.1.txt

(older asciidoc may want html instead of html4 above)