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cleanup: migrate from re.escape to stringutil.reescape This has consistent behavior on Python 2.7, 3.6, and 3.7 and has the benefit of probably being a little faster. Test output changes are largely because / used to be pointlessly escaped. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D3842
author Augie Fackler <augie@google.com>
date Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:36:23 -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.