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tests: remove use of bashism $RANDOM to fix test-narrow.t on non-bash shells This test passed on our workstations, including on Macs, so we never noticed, but it fails on both the Linux and FreeBSD buildbots. Today I learned about a bash feature, wherein $RANDOM gives a random int every time you read it. check-code rule to follow. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2236
author Augie Fackler <augie@google.com>
date Tue, 13 Feb 2018 17:58:40 -0500
parents 1b59287a1cfa
children c5912e35d06d
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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.