doc fix

diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
index 8c070ad00a0f5dcc94b06351a7d8b8713b2179cc..e6b10e79ebd1e87780b1d2f393758aaac7246ca9 100644 (file)
--- a/README.txt
+++ b/README.txt
@@ -26,10 +26,10 @@ See LICENSE.txt.
 
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-Note that Cython no longer ships the Mercurial (hg) repository in its
-source distribution.  To get the full source history, make sure you
-have hg installed, then step into the base directory of the Cython
-source distribution and type
+Note that Cython used to ship the Mercurial (hg) repository in its source
+distribution, but no longer does so due to space constraints.  To get the
+full source history, make sure you have hg installed, then step into the
+base directory of the Cython source distribution and type
 
     make repo