README.rst
author Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@bec.de>
Wed, 10 Mar 2021 18:09:21 +0100
changeset 46792 49fd21f32695
parent 46769 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
revlog: guarantee that p1 != null if a non-null parent exists This change does not affect the hashing (which already did this transformation), but can change the log output in the rare case where this behavior was observed in repositories. The change can simplify iteration code where regular changesets and merges are distinct branches. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10150

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.