README.rst
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
Fri, 16 Apr 2021 02:14:21 +0200
changeset 47199 353718f741a8
parent 46769 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
bookmark: use `list_paths` to access path definition The content of the `[paths]` config section is receiving transformation that make it hard to recognise whats the actual name, and the next changeset will make it worse. So we use the official API for this instead. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10448

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.