archive: use a templater to build the metadata file
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I'm starting to wonder if adding the '+' to the 'node' line instead of a
separate key line in 3047167733dc was the right thing to do. The '{node}'
keyword never includes '+' elsewhere, and the way setup.py works, it would
truncate it anyway. Additionally, the file is missing '{p2node}' when 'wdir()'
merges are archived. I thought about adding an 'identify' line that would
correspond to `hg id -n`. But the other nodes are the full 40 characters, and
the output most useful for versioning is the short form. All of this cries out
for customization via templating. (Although maybe having the short identify
line by default is still a good idea.)
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.