README.rst
author Raphaël Gomès <rgomes@octobus.net>
Tue, 05 Nov 2024 15:21:09 +0100
branchstable
changeset 52156 e6a44bc91bc2
parent 46769 c5912e35d06d
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rust-update: make `update_from_null` respect `worker.numcpu` config option This was overlooked in the original series. This is important for tests (because we run many at once), and for the occasional end user that wants to keep their CPU usage in check. A future series should clean up this `worker` parameter tunelling business by rewriting the config in Rust, but doing so on stable would be a very bad idea.

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.