annotate doc/README @ 45077:fa270dcbdb55

procutil: back out 8403cc54bc83 (make ....procutil.stderr unbuffered)

Changeset 8403cc54bc83 introduced code that opens a second file object
referring to the stderr file descriptor. This broke tests on Windows. The
reason is that on Windows, sys.stderr is buffered and procutil.stderr closed
the file descriptor when it got garbage collected before sys.stderr had the
chance to flush buffered data.

`procutil.stdout` had the same problem for a long time, but we didn’t realize,
as in CI test runs, stdout is not a TTY and in this case no second file object
is opened.

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.