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py3: have bytes version of sys.executable sys.executable on Python 3 returns unicodes and we want bytes. So this patch adds a new pycompat.sysexecutable which returns bytes by encoding using os.fsencode() since it is path variable.
author Pulkit Goyal <7895pulkit@gmail.com>
date Tue, 20 Dec 2016 00:02:24 +0530
parents 4b0fc75f9403
children 76b171209151
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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.