doc/README
author Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas@intevation.de>
Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:37:15 +0200
changeset 4729 9881abfc0e44
parent 453 7a3a3952c431
child 5048 8db8e1100f3f
permissions -rw-r--r--
Catch illegal boolean values in hgrc nicely. With hg 0.9.3 the section and parameter name wasn't printed, with hg 0.9.4 there was a traceback for ValueError.

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