README.rst
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
Tue, 13 Dec 2022 04:22:19 +0100
changeset 50063 2aacd560cf59
parent 46769 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
locking: take the `wlock` for the full `hg addremove` duration Otherwise, there is a race condition window between the time we resolve the file to addremove with the matcher and the time we lock the repo and modify the dirstate. For example, the working copy might have been updated away, or purged, and the matched files would no longer be correct.

Mercurial
=========

Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install::

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing::

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.

Notes for packagers
===================

Mercurial ships a copy of the python-zstandard sources. This is used to
provide support for zstd compression and decompression functionality. The
module is not intended to be replaced by the plain python-zstandard nor
is it intended to use a system zstd library. Patches can result in hard
to diagnose errors and are explicitly discouraged as unsupported
configuration.