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revset: reword commonancestor()'s help The new version seems a bit more consistent with other doc comments, and feels clearer to me (doesn't explain "commonancestors(set)" as "common ancestors of set"). Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4740
author Valentin Gatien-Baron <vgatien-baron@janestreet.com>
date Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:18:43 -0400
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Mercurial
=========

Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install::

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing::

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.