README.rst
author Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@google.com>
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 10:12:50 -0800
changeset 40757 2f14d1bbc9a7
parent 34579 1b59287a1cfa
child 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
match: remove obsolete catching of OverflowError Since 0f6a1bdf89fb (match: handle large regexes, 2007-08-19), we catch an OverflowError from the regex engine and split up the regex if that happens. In 59a9dc9562e2 (ignore: split up huge patterns, 2008-02-11), that was extended to raise an OverflowError in our code even if the regex engine doesn't raise it. It's unclear if there was a range of regex sizes where the OverflowError would be raised from the regex engine but that were still below the limit we added in our code. Either way, both limitations were probably removed in Python 2.7.4 when the regex code width was extended from 16bit to 32bit (or Py_UCS4) integer (thanks to Yuya for finding that out). If at least the first limitation was removed, we no longer should be using OverflowError for flow control, so this patch changes that. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D5309

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.