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tests: fix test-transaction-safety.t on Windows Mostly this is about `C:\dir\sub` style paths being turned into `C:dirsub` by MSYS, and not being about to execute shell scripts in hooks directly. See also a12819559ccb::9e3979a25bfe. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10762
author Matt Harbison <matt_harbison@yahoo.com>
date Thu, 20 May 2021 19:30:56 -0400
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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.