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Mercurial
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=========
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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.
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Notes for packagers
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Mercurial ships a copy of the python-zstandard sources. This is used to
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provide support for zstd compression and decompression functionality. The
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module is not intended to be replaced by the plain python-zstandard nor
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is it intended to use a system zstd library. Patches can result in hard
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to diagnose errors and are explicitly discouraged as unsupported
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configuration.