doc/README

update: fix bare update to work on new branch

So far bare update on new branch results in
'abort: branch new-branch not found'. This commit fixes
this by updating to the parent of wctx.

The effect of updating to the parent of wctx is to move to the paren't
branch - this means that it is no longer necessary to prevent you from
updating if you would lose your newly created branch.

Mercurial's documentation is kept in reStructuredText format, which is
a simple plain text format that's easy to read and edit:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html

It's also convertible to a variety of other formats including standard
UNIX man page format and HTML. You'll need to install Docutils:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/

Use the Makefile in this directory to generate the man and HTML pages.