doc/README
author Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com>
Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:05:39 -0700
changeset 4372 4ddc6d374265
parent 453 7a3a3952c431
child 5048 8db8e1100f3f
permissions -rw-r--r--
localrepository.status: only acquire wlock if actually needed. This speeds up the common case of not needing to update the dirstate, and avoids the need to reload and parse the dirstate "just in case".

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