# HG changeset patch
# User Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
# Date 1299402456 -3600
# Node ID 7748e801692af2e524a3d5ed3f4564afca163cd9
# Parent  edd7c5f974276000f81a9dfb3aa28e962a667fc3
Add README.

diff -r edd7c5f97427 -r 7748e801692a README
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/README	Sun Mar 06 10:07:36 2011 +0100
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+This is the IcedTea variant of the Mercurial Forest Extension.
+http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ForestExtension
+
+The original forest extension was at http://hg.akoha.org/hgforest
+but is no longer maintained. Mercurial adopted the somehwat similar
+concept of subrepositories as officially supported extension.
+http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Subrepository
+This is not compatible with forests though (forsts require some
+protocol extensions not supported by plain Mercurial).
+
+This repository is maintained to support the IcedTea and OpenJDK
+hackers who are still using mercurial forests. It incorporates
+changes from the following two forks:
+https://bitbucket.org/pmezard/hgforest-crew
+https://bitbucket.org/gxti/hgforest