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tests: make removeemptydirs more portable The behavior of pwd change from one system (i.e. default shell/sh) from one system to another so we use fuzzy matching for the output we do not care and we use narrower command call to highlight what we are trying to test here. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11449
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
date Fri, 17 Sep 2021 21:04:21 +0200
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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.

Notes for packagers
===================

Mercurial ships a copy of the python-zstandard sources. This is used to
provide support for zstd compression and decompression functionality. The
module is not intended to be replaced by the plain python-zstandard nor
is it intended to use a system zstd library. Patches can result in hard
to diagnose errors and are explicitly discouraged as unsupported
configuration.