doc/README

exchangev2: use filesdata

filesdata is a more efficient mechanism for bulk fetching files data for a
range of changesets. Let's use it in exchangev2.

With this change, a client performing a full clone of mozilla-unified
transmits substantially fewer bytes across the wire:

before: 139,124,863 bytes sent
after:   20,522,499 bytes sent

The bulk of the remaining bytes is likely the transfer of ~1M nodes for
changesets and manifests. We can eliminate this by making requests in
terms of node ranges instead of explicit node lists...

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4982

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.