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commands: tweak help for 'heads'. - prefer "changeset" over "revision" for internal consistency - clarify explanation of branch heads - add a line break - tighten some wording
author Greg Ward <greg-hg@gerg.ca>
date Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:12:53 -0400
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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 html4 hg.1.txt

(older asciidoc may want html instead of html4 above)