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help.merge-tools: do not double document merge tools Merge tools were being double documented in help system output due to functions being defined under multiple names in the merge tools dictionary. Establish a new dictionary for just the tools to document and use it from the help system so we don't get double output. Double documentation likely plagues other auto-documented items as well. It might be a good idea to eventually compare function instances to filter out duplicate entries from dictionaries passed to ``makeitemsdoc``. However, without an easy way to break ties, this may result in some functions being advertised over their modern equivalents. This would be a noble patch series. But it isn't one this author is willing to tackle at this time.

help: teach topic symbols how to dedent When using docstrings for documenting symbols such as revsets, templates, or hgweb commands, documentation likely has leading whitespace corresponding to the indentation from the Python source file. Up until this point, the help system stripped all leading and trailing whitespace and replaced it with 2 spaces of leading whitespace. There were a few bad side-effects. First, sections could not be used in docstrings because they would be indented and the rst parser would fail to parse them as sections. Also, any rst elements that required indentation would lose their indentation, again causing them to be parsed and rendered incorrectly. In this patch, we teach the topic symbols system how to dedent text properly. I argue this mode should be enabled by default. However, I stopped short of changing that because it would cause a lot of documentation reformatting to occur. I'm not sure if people are relying on or wanting indentation. So, dedenting has only been turned on for hgweb symbols. This decision should be scrutinized.