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windows: replace single quote with double quote when translating to cmd.exe Since cmd.exe doesn't understand single quotes, single quotes to prevent $var expansion is basically unusable without this. Single quote isn't allowed in a path name, so it seems unlikely to come up otherwise.
author Matt Harbison <matt_harbison@yahoo.com>
date Sun, 15 Jul 2018 23:58:39 -0400
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Mercurial
=========

Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install::

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing::

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.