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bundlerepo: enforce the requirements declared by the underlying repository

Previously, `hg log -r 'bundle()' -R bundle.hg` was failing for me when run from
source, complaining about an unknown parent, when the system installed `hg`
didn't.  Some debugging showed the index was 0 length.  It turned out that I
didn't have the C extensions compiled, which a simple `hg log -r .` was able to
indicate.  The problem being that the RequirementError got handled by RepoError,
which uses an empty directory as a fallback to process the bundle.

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.