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posix: retry on symlink race in checklink Multiple threads might attempt to check links with the same temporary name. This would cause one side to get an EEXIST error and wrongly fail the support check. Here, we simply retry if our temporary name exists.
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Mercurial
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Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
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for software developers.
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Basic install:
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 $ make            # see install targets
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 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
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 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
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 $ hg              # see help
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Running without installing:
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 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
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 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version
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See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
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instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.