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transaction: explain why some recovery failed Right now we issue a message about failing to recover some file, but not why. It seems useful to add some information about that. (This is an opportunity improvement while looking at something next to that.) Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10842
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
date Wed, 09 Jun 2021 01:12:03 +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.