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dirstate: move parent state handling in the dirstatemap This involves dirstatemap data mostly. Moving this one level down will remove the needs for the dirstatemap to expose some of its internals. This will help us to simplify more code further. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11505
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
date Wed, 22 Sep 2021 15:17:12 +0200
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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.

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.