README.rst
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
Tue, 14 Feb 2023 20:09:39 +0100
changeset 49995 27fd12eca557
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
transaction: quietly rollback if no other changes than temporary files If no actual change have been made, we don't really need to roll them back. We only have to cleanup some temporary files and it seems reasonable to do that quietly. This will help us to use the transaction in wider context¹ without impacting the user experience. [1] as in Python context managers that lives longer.

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.