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1 Mercurial
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2 =========
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4 Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
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5 for software developers.
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7 Basic install::
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9 $ make # see install targets
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10 $ make install # do a system-wide install
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11 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
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12 $ hg # see help
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14 Running without installing::
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16 $ make local # build for inplace usage
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17 $ ./hg --version # should show the latest version
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19 See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
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20 instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.
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22 Notes for packagers
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23 ===================
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25 Mercurial ships a copy of the python-zstandard sources. This is used to
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26 provide support for zstd compression and decompression functionality. The
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27 module is not intended to be replaced by the plain python-zstandard nor
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28 is it intended to use a system zstd library. Patches can result in hard
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29 to diagnose errors and are explicitly discouraged as unsupported
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30 configuration.