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copies: avoid unwanted side effect from one branch to another Without this copy, change in a one descendant branch (With "remove" change only) could affect computation on another descendant branches. This was not caugh by the test because the test graph are "too simple". I started writing more test in that regards, but I a submitting this changes earlier because I want to get more code landed to allow other optimisation work to happens. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D9416
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
date Fri, 20 Nov 2020 10:38:46 +0100
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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.