README.rst
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
Mon, 12 Jul 2021 03:30:04 +0200
changeset 47618 27ff81547d35
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
sigpipe-remote: simply delegate pipe forwarding to subprocess we can kill Instead of using sophisticated logics with thread a non blocking pipes, we simply spawn two new process in charge of reading the pipe and sending the result to the client. When it is time to cut the pipe we violently kill them without any remorse. This close the pipe regardless of any in progress `os.read` call. Ironically this is the very same things as what the initial shell setup was doing, but in Python. This makes the test pass run properly on Windows. This also reveal that the Windows behavior is broken as the transaction is not properly rollback. However this is an adventure for another time. Making the test behave properly was enough effort. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11087

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.