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README: remove usage instructions, and refer to the help topic instead. The diff for the change can be somewhat hard to read, but all it does is replace the `Basic Use' and `Support for svn:externals' sections with the following section: Further Reading --------------- More information on how to use hgsubversion is available from within Mercurial in the `subversion` help topic. To view it, use:: $ hg help subversion The Restructured Text source for this topic is also available in the file ``hgsubverson/help/subversion.rst``.
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3 ============
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4 hgsubversion
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5 ============
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7 hgsubversion is an extension for Mercurial that allows using Mercurial
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8 as a Subversion client.
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10 At this point, hgsubversion is usable by users reasonably familiar with
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11 Mercurial as a VCS. It's not recommended to dive into hgsubversion as an
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12 introduction to Mercurial, since hgsubversion "bends the rules" a little
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13 and violates some of the typical assumptions of early Mercurial users.
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15 Installation
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16 ------------
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17 You need to have Subversion installed with the SWIG Python bindings
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18 from Subversion 1.5 or later. You need Mercurial 1.3 or later.
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20 .. _mercurial: http://selenic.com/repo/hg
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21 .. _mercurial-stable: http://selenic.com/repo/hg-stable
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22 .. _crew: http://hg.intevation.org/mercurial/crew
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23 .. _crew-stable: http://hg.intevation.org/mercurial/crew-stable
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25 If you are unfamiliar with installing Mercurial extensions, please see
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26 the UsingExtensions_ page in the Mercurial wiki. Look at the example
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27 for specifying an absolute path near the bottom of the page. You want
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28 to give the path to the top level of your clone of this repository.
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30 .. _UsingExtensions: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/UsingExtensions
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32 Before using hgsubversion, I *strongly* encourage you to run the
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33 automated tests. Just use nose_ if you have it (or ``easy_install
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34 nose`` if you want it), or use ``python tests/run.py`` to run the
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35 suite with the conventional test runner. Note that because I use nose,
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36 there's a lot of stdout spew in the tests right now. The important
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37 part is that all the tests pass.
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39 .. _nose: http://code.google.com/p/python-nose/
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41 Further Reading
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42 ---------------
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44 More information on how to use hgsubversion is available from within Mercurial
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45 in the `subversion` help topic. To view it, use::
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47 $ hg help subversion
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50 ``hgsubverson/help/subversion.rst``.