heads: modernize documentation (issue3992)
The old docs emphasized topological heads rather than branch heads and
incorrectly defined branch heads as not having children rather than
descendants.
Mercurial
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Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.
Basic install:
$ make # see install targets
$ make install # do a system-wide install
$ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
$ hg # see help
Running without installing:
$ make local # build for inplace usage
$ ./hg --version # should show the latest version
See http://mercurial.selenic.com/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.