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filterfiles: Search as long as the target is a prefix of current.

filterfiles was failing to find files for directory arguments if
another file existed that started with the directory name and
sorted earlier. For example, a manifest of ('foo.h', 'foo/foo')
would cause filterfiles('foo') to return nothing. This resolves
issue #294.

Mercurial's documentation is currently kept in ASCIIDOC format, which
is a simple plain text format that's easy to read and edit. It's also
convertible to a variety of other formats including standard UNIX man
page format and HTML.

To do this, you'll need to install ASCIIDOC:

 http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/

To generate the man page:

 asciidoc -d manpage -b docbook hg.1.txt
 xmlto man hg.1.xml

To display:

 groff -mandoc -Tascii hg.1 | more

To create the html page (without stylesheets):

 asciidoc -b html hg.1.txt