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tests: add test demonstrating how broken third-party extensions can get I intend to fix this, but will do the fix as a separate change to make the behavior change obvious. This was inspired by some users having the patience diff extension, which broke when we moved bdiff.so so thoroughly the users can't even run 'hg debuginstall'.
author Augie Fackler <augie@google.com>
date Tue, 06 Jun 2017 10:03:16 -0400
parents 4b0fc75f9403
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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.