README.rst
author Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com>
Sun, 20 Feb 2022 13:16:44 -0700
changeset 48857 41c552a20716
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tests: collapse some more trivial if PYTHON3 blocks This doesn't account for all of the references to PYTHON3. But it accounts for the ones that are more trivial and don't entail logical changes. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D12235

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.