README.rst
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
Mon, 07 Jun 2021 21:09:31 +0200
changeset 47423 9ea525216edb
parent 46769 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
copyfiles: deal with existing file when hardlinking If the hardlinking fails, we fallback to `shutil.copy`, but do not consider future hardlinking doomed. This is a slight improvement from the current situation, we still avoid hardliking in a case we might be able to do it. However this does not have an impact of the rest of the operation. (This is an opportunity improvement while looking at something next to that.) Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10841

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.