README.rst
author Denis Laxalde <denis.laxalde@logilab.fr>
Wed, 23 Oct 2019 17:18:57 +0200
branchstable
changeset 43319 11c85873e106
parent 34579 1b59287a1cfa
child 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
packaging: avoid running bare "make install" in debian/rules We change the "override_dh_install" target to "override_dh_auto_install" in debian/rules (see dh_auto_install(1) for details). This is because we do not want "make install" to be run automatically as we need the --install-layout=deb of "setup.py install". Otherwise, files end up in $DESTDIR/usr/local. At the moment, this is not a problem since files installed in debian/tmp (the default location) are not packed into binary packages (because there are debian/mercurial and debian/mercurial-common directories). This is cleaner to avoid running make more than needed.

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.