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rhg: fallback when encountering ellipsis revisions

Ellipsis revisions are still experimental and buggy in non-trivial
histories. We currently have no plans to improve this situation nor
to add support for ellipsis revisions in `rhg`.

Falling back should be done carefully (since we may have already done
some work that is visible to the user), but in this case it's highly
unlikely that we're doing anything useful with a repo with ellipsis
revisions, so this should be strictly better, also since the
error message is more explicit.

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.

Notes for packagers
===================

Mercurial ships a copy of the python-zstandard sources. This is used to
provide support for zstd compression and decompression functionality. The
module is not intended to be replaced by the plain python-zstandard nor
is it intended to use a system zstd library. Patches can result in hard
to diagnose errors and are explicitly discouraged as unsupported
configuration.