README.rst
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
Thu, 01 Jul 2021 19:15:22 +0200
changeset 47483 4ac418b4a6af
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
dirstate: introduce a symbolic constant for the NONNORMAL marker This is going to be clearer and easier to track than -1. Ultimately I would like to get ride of this special value everywhere but in the lower level, however we need to clarify the API first. This changeset is part of such clarification. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10927

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.