/hg/hgforest: Add README.

[mark at icedtea.classpath.org]

changeset 7748e801692a in /hg/hgforest
details: http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/hgforest?cmd=changeset;node=7748e801692a
author: Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp.org>
date: Sun Mar 06 10:07:36 2011 +0100

	Add README.


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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+but is no longer maintained.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