hgbook on bitbucket; was: hgbook is broken?

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Sun Feb 15 00:20:58 CST 2009


On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 13:50 +0100, Marcin Kasperski wrote:
> ------------------- ReST ------------------------------------
> 
> Removing a file does not affect its history
> ===========================================
> 
> It is important to understand that removing a file has only two
> effects.
> 
> - It removes the current version of the file from the working
>   directory.
> - It stops Mercurial from tracking changes to the file, from the
>   time of the next commit.
> 
> Removing a file *does not* in any way alter the *history* of
> the file.

This is all great until you want to begin a line with a literal dash,
etc. The behavior of "natural" mark-up engines like ReST is simply not
well-defined and predictable in the way that TeX and XML-based mark-up
are. Rather than have clear delineation between what is mark-up and what
is content, it has to rely on complex regular expressions that may
sometimes do the wrong thing. 

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