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shelve: drop pickle usage Pickle was used to the `shelvedstate` file. However the content of the file is very simple and we can handle serialisation ourself. Not using pickle is a net win. Note incrementing the format version as no releases have been done so far.
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@ens-lyon.org>
date Mon, 14 Oct 2013 18:59:12 +0200
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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.