README.rst
author Manuel Jacob <me@manueljacob.de>
Tue, 06 Aug 2024 17:53:59 +0200
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cffi: pass bytes instead of str to ffi.new("char[]", …) The type annotations seem to imply that the passed values are always already bytes, but they aren’t necessarily. Before Python 3.11, the documentation stated that bytes can be used to annotate arguments whose type is actually any of bytes, bytearray, or memoryview.

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.