annotate doc/README @ 35412:b1959391a088

extdata: abort if external command exits with non-zero status (BC)

Per the last discussion, this is more reliable and consistent way than
suppressing an error. For grep, erroring out might be inconvenient, but
for curl, non-zero exit status should be detected. The latter wouldn't be
possible if non-zero status is ignored.

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2017-October/105727.html

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.