README.rst
author Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@octobus.net>
Tue, 13 Jul 2021 17:18:23 +0200
changeset 47678 065e61628980
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
dirstate-v2: Support appending to the same data file For now we’re still writing the entire data every time, so appending is not useful yet. Later we’ll have new nodes pointing to some existing data for nodes and paths that haven’t changed. The decision whether to append is pseudo-random in order to make tests exercise both code paths. This will be replaced by a heuristic based on the amount of unused existing data. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11094

Mercurial
=========

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
===================

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.