README.rst
author Matt Harbison <matt_harbison@yahoo.com>
Sun, 03 Oct 2021 20:11:42 -0400
changeset 48193 c95f6c2d1f4e
parent 46769 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
packaging: update the certifi dependency Not sure if this helps with recent certificate issues[1], but we might as well keep this modern. Note that certifi no longer claims py2 support, and there's a PR to add it back in[2]. Py2 support was dropped in 2020.04.05.2 (which predates what's being updated here). None of the *.py files have changed since the 2020.6.20 release, and I was able to call `certifi.where()` in both a virtualenv and with `hg debugshell` from an MSI install with this version, so we shouldn't be any worse off than before. [1] https://foss.heptapod.net/mercurial/tortoisehg/thg/-/issues/5745 [2] https://github.com/certifi/python-certifi/pull/154 Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11609

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.