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Kyle Lippincott authored
`bytes(default)` was producing things like `(default: \x00)` when handed
non-bytes values such as `1`, `10`, or `True`. The man page generation would
apparently ignore these bytes and produce man pages that had the string
`(default: )`.

Test Plan:
- Ran `cd doc; python3 gendoc.py "hg.1.gendoc"` and grepped for bad output
- Ran `make deb`, extracted the deb, manually inspected `hg.1` file.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D8639
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Mercurial's documentation is kept in reStructuredText format, which is
a simple plain text format that's easy to read and edit:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html

It's also convertible to a variety of other formats including standard
UNIX man page format and HTML. You'll need to install Docutils:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/

Use the Makefile in this directory to generate the man and HTML pages.