README.rst
author Raphaël Gomès <rgomes@octobus.net>
Wed, 23 Mar 2022 17:38:59 +0100
changeset 49100 38e5bb1425dd
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
rust-dirstate: introduce intermediate struct for dirstate-v2 data This is passed often as a long tuple that is not easy to know the form of, so we refactor everything in this struct. This also renames `wdir_tracked` to follow the Python `wc_tracked`, even though the on-disk format uses `WDIR_TRACKED`. I think a single naming scheme is better, but we can't easily break the Python impl now because of extensions, so this is low-effort enough and facilitates grepping. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D12498

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.