README.rst
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
Tue, 23 May 2023 03:09:46 +0200
changeset 50707 36478b2ab8b3
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
stream-clone: explicitly split debug test output for application per version Altering the format may introduce significant changes in output and in order. It is going to be simpler to deal with explicitly different blocks for the output.

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.