README.rst
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
Thu, 20 May 2021 21:47:09 +0200
changeset 47459 c252631500e4
parent 46769 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
revlog: add a way to keep track of older uids in the docket When the revlog content is rewritten, we will use new files, to avoid truncating the previous ones. We need some way to keep track of the older files before we clean them up. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10866

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.