README.rst

dirstate-tree: Serialize to disk

The existing `pack_dirstate` function relies on implementation details
of `DirstateMap`, so extract some parts of it as separate functions
for us in the tree-based `DirstateMap`.

The `bytes-cast` crate is updated to a version that has an `as_bytes` method,
not just `from_bytes`:
https://docs.rs/bytes-cast/0.2.0/bytes_cast/trait.BytesCast.html#method.as_bytes

Drive-by refactor `clear_ambiguous_times` which does part of the same thing.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10486

Mercurial
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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
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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.