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readme: mention how to run in-place The README describes how to install Mercurial but it does not describe how to run it in place (for developers). This adds a short paragraph to the README describing how to do run Mercurial inplace.
author Ross Lagerwall <rosslagerwall@gmail.com>
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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 http://mercurial.selenic.com/ for detailed installation
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20 instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.