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manifestmerge: local unknown, remote created: don't traverse symlinks

To figure out what to do with locally unknown files, Mercurial attempts to read
them if they exist. When an attempt is made to read a file that exists but
traverses a symlink, Mercurial aborts.

With this patch, we first ensure that the file doesn't traverse a symlink
before opening it. This is fine because a file being "remote created" means the
symlink doesn't exist remotely, which means it will be deleted in the apply
phase.

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.