README.rst
author Valentin Gatien-Baron <valentin.gatienbaron@gmail.com>
Sun, 09 Feb 2020 15:50:36 -0500
changeset 44295 142d2a4cb69a
parent 34579 1b59287a1cfa
child 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
help: add a mechanism to change flags' help depending on config It seems reasonable to have a similar mechanism for the rest of the help, but no such thing is implemented. The goal is to make the help of commands clearer in the presence of significant default changes, like tweakdefaults or with company-wide hgrcs. In these cases, a user looking at the help of a command doesn't exactly know what his hgrc is doing. Apply to this to the --git option of commands that display diffs, as this option in particular causes confusion for some reason. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D8100

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.