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convert: if getting a file from Perforce fails try to get it one more time

When converting a particularly large Perforce changelist (especially with  some
big files), it is very likely to run into an intermittent network issue (e.g.
WSAECONNRESET or WSAETIMEDOUT) getting one of the files, which will result in
the entire changelist converting being aborted. Which can be quite unfortunate
since you might have waited hours getting all other files. To mitigate this
let's attempt to get the file one more time, escalating original exception
if that attempt fails.

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.