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Add automatic binary file detection to diff and export

Based on a patch by Fuming Wang

- add util.binary which decides whether a file is binary if it has any NUL
  characters in the first 1K.
- teach mdiff.unidiff to print "binary file <x> has changed" for binary files
- add text flag to cause unidiff and dodiff to treat all files as text
- add -a and --text flags (like diff(1)) to hg diff and export
- update docs

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 html hg.1.txt