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lfs: rename {oid} to {lfsoid} Per Yuya, for consistency with {lfspointer}. It might be slightly confusing for there to be {lfsoid} and {lfspointer.oid}. But preventing ambiguity seems more important, and the latter is controlled by the git-lfs spec.
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Mercurial's documentation is kept in reStructuredText format, which is
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a simple plain text format that's easy to read and edit:
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  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
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It's also convertible to a variety of other formats including standard
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UNIX man page format and HTML. You'll need to install Docutils:
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  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/
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Use the Makefile in this directory to generate the man and HTML pages.