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patchbomb: allow using HGHOSTNAME to force a hostname I'll update run-tests.py to set this globally to stabilize some tests. The variable name is intentionally generic because I suspect we should generalize this to other tests. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4294
author Augie Fackler <raf@durin42.com>
date Thu, 16 Aug 2018 00:40:20 -0400
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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.