README.rst
author Matt Harbison <matt_harbison@yahoo.com>
Thu, 05 Jan 2023 17:38:14 -0500
branchstable
changeset 49630 e90767a71dc0
parent 46769 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
histedit: byteify the help for the multifold action While there's some allowance for str in `_()`, it's commented to be for "goofy unicode docstrings in test", so no idea how well that works, but it should at least come back as bytes. With HGPLAIN, however, the str isn't touched and is returned as-is, so this seems like a real bug.

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.