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rebase: change "result would have 3 parent" error message (BC) The old error message "cannot use revision REV as base, result would have 3 parents" is confusing - why use REV as base? why add a new parent?. This patch changes it to "cannot move parent", which seems better. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D342
author Jun Wu <quark@fb.com>
date Sat, 12 Aug 2017 21:01:06 -0700
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Mercurial
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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.