README.rst
author Boris Feld <boris.feld@octobus.net>
Thu, 15 Nov 2018 03:09:23 +0100
branchstable
changeset 40670 bd0874977a5e
parent 34579 1b59287a1cfa
child 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
checkexec: create destination directory if necessary Since 460733327640, a "share" use the cache of the source repository. A side effect is that no `.hg/cache` directory exists in the "share" anymore. As a result, the checkexec logic can't use it to create its temporary file and have to use the working copy for that. This is suboptimal, it pollutes the working copy and prevents them to keep the file around in cache. We do not want to use the cache directory for the share target, it might be on a different file system. So instead, we (try to) create the directory if it is missing. This is a simple change that fixes the current behavior regression on stable. On default, we should probably ensure the proper directories are created when initializing the repository. We should also introduce a 'wcache' directory to hold cache file related to the working copy. This would clarify the cache situation regarding shares. The tests catch a couple of other affected cases.

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.