view README.rst @ 48307:ab2dfc993b5c stable

tests: run the whole hg-core/path_auditor test in a clean temp dir

This makes the whole test happen in a clean temporary directory in
`$TMPDIR/$random`, and simplifies the test a bit by eliminating unnecessarily
dynamic path elements computations.

Before this patch, the first part of the test was happening in `/tmp` itself.
This allowed coincidentally named files placed in that directory to impact the
outcome of the test. Additionally, this made the second part of the test fail
on systems on which `$TMPDIR != /tmp`, because the inspected directory was
different from the one in which the mock files were being written. This fully
fixes the issue only partially solved in db2bc9e667a1.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11738

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.