README.rst
author Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@bec.de>
Sat, 20 Jul 2024 00:43:08 +0200
changeset 51914 3dbbb7d913a9
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
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revlogutils: remember known metadata parents for issue6528 In the cases where the parent revs tell us for sure that the parent has metadata, remember this fact to avoid content recomputations later.

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.