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dirstate-v2: adjust the meaning of directory flags Tracking directory "explicitly" give use the opportunity to distinct between entry that are untracked because they are part of the directory structure and entry that are ignored/unknown files on the files system. The help is adjusted to the new semantic and the code now comply to it for both read and write. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11694
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
date Tue, 19 Oct 2021 18:18:05 +0200
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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.