README.rst
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
Wed, 01 Mar 2023 02:38:20 +0100
branchstable
changeset 49700 379a78001d8e
parent 46769 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
dirstate: set identity whenever we read the dirstate's v2 docket The docket can be loaded outside of a full read (for exemple when pre-fetching parents), so the current code would read/set the identity after loading the data, opening a race condition: A0: first process docket is read B0: other process appends new data to the dirstate (and changes the docket) A1: first process sets the identity (based on pre-B content, but with post-B identity) A1: first process loads the dirstatemap from the data file A1: first process does not detect the race and overwrites the update from B.

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.