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patch: properly escape \ in string literals Python 3.8 will emit a SyntaxWarning for str/bytes with invalid escapes. This commit addresses 4 occurrences where we had a bare \ in a str/bytes. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D5818
author Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com>
date Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:59:11 -0800
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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.