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patch.diffopts: allow a setting to be forced in plain mode

Upcoming patches will add an option that will almost certainly break diff
output parsers when enabled. Add support for forcing an option to something in
plain mode, as a fallback. Options passed in via the CLI are not affected,
though -- it is assumed that any script passing the option in explicitly knows
what it is doing.

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.