README.rst
author Matt Harbison <matt_harbison@yahoo.com>
Mon, 29 Jul 2024 12:10:08 -0400
changeset 51740 7226f2626fb1
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
httppeer: avoid another bad reference before assignment warning This wasn't a problem, because `b''` from the `AttributeError` handler is in `bundle2.bundletypes`, so the following loop and conditional always run at least once. But PyCharm can't figure that out on its own, and it took a little exploring to figure out it wasn't a problem. The usage in `bundle2.writebundle` is to look it up in the map of bundle types, so it will break in a more obvious way in the unlikely event that the empty string is removed from the map in the future.

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.