About http://mercurial.selenic.com/

[Matt Mackall]

On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 23:02 +0200, Johan Holmberg wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> The page http://mercurial.selenic.com/ has a "Quick Start" column to
> the right. But for as long as I can remember my browsers (Firefox,
> Safari and Chrome) fail to show the full text of the example. The
> first line show up as something like:
> 
>     $ hg clone http://selenic.com/re
> 
> I had to use "View Source" in my browser to find out that it actually
> is meant to show:
> 
>     $ hg clone http://selenic.com/repo/hello
> 
> It would be nice if this was fixed. This page is the top hit when I
> google "mercurial", and it is a bit unfortunate that the example
> "doesn't work".

Well, from interacting with thousands of n00bs, I'm beginning to suspect
the quickstart does more harm than good. Having people commit and merge
without any mental model of the underlying DAG seems to cause lots of
trouble.

Seems to work for me on Firefox on Linux, Chrome exhibits the cut-off.
This is apparently due to a disagreement on what font / point size to
use.

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