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help.merge-tools: do not double document merge tools...
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.

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Mercurial's default format for showing changes between two versions of
a file is compatible with the unified format of GNU diff, which can be
used by GNU patch and many other standard tools.
While this standard format is often enough, it does not encode the
following information:
- executable status and other permission bits
- copy or rename information
- changes in binary files
- creation or deletion of empty files
Mercurial also supports the extended diff format from the git VCS
which addresses these limitations. The git diff format is not produced
by default because a few widespread tools still do not understand this
format.
This means that when generating diffs from a Mercurial repository
(e.g. with :hg:`export`), you should be careful about things like file
copies and renames or other things mentioned above, because when
applying a standard diff to a different repository, this extra
information is lost. Mercurial's internal operations (like push and
pull) are not affected by this, because they use an internal binary
format for communicating changes.
To make Mercurial produce the git extended diff format, use the --git
option available for many commands, or set 'git = True' in the [diff]
section of your configuration file. You do not need to set this option
when importing diffs in this format or using them in the mq extension.