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contributor: change mentions of mpm to olivia Matt Mackall is now Olivia Mackall. I reached out to her about changing the copyright notices to reflect this change and she gave me the green light, so I changed everything relevant. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10266
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6 Mercurial source code management system
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9 :Author: Olivia Mackall <olivia@selenic.com>
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10 :Organization: Mercurial
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12 :Manual group: Mercurial Manual
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15 :backlinks: top
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20 Synopsis
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21 """"""""
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22 **hg** *command* [*option*]... [*argument*]...
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26 The **hg** command provides a command line interface to the Mercurial
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29 Command Elements
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33 indicates one or more filename or relative path filenames; see
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45 either the pathname of a local repository or the URI of a remote
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53 ``/etc/mercurial/hgrc``, ``$HOME/.hgrc``, ``.hg/hgrc``
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54 This file contains defaults and configuration. Values in
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58 files.
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60 ``.hgignore``
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61 This file contains regular expressions (one per line) that
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63 see |hgignore(5)|_.
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65 ``.hgsub``
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70 ``.hgsubstate``
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99 |hgignore(5)|_, |hgrc(5)|_
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103 Written by Olivia Mackall <olivia@selenic.com>
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107 Main Web Site: https://mercurial-scm.org/
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109 Source code repository: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg
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111 Mailing list: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial/
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114 """""""
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115 Copyright (C) 2005-2021 Olivia Mackall.
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116 Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General
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117 Public License version 2 or any later version.
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119 .. include:: common.txt