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py3: stop normalizing .encode()/.decode() arguments to unicode Now that we don't byte transform string literals, we no longer need this transform. While we're here, we also drop some superfluous u'' prefix in existing callers. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D7011
author Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com>
date Sun, 06 Oct 2019 17:27:51 -0400
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.