README.rst
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
Wed, 15 Mar 2023 12:13:08 +0100
branchstable
changeset 50308 cab3defe6d3b
parent 46769 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
transaction: raise on backup restoration error A few line above, similar errors in the truncation code result in raising the associated exception. We should do the same here. This means the transaction recover is more strict now, which might be a problem when running `hg recover` in a share different from the one where the transaction fails. However this has always been a problem and need to be be addressed independently.

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.