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py3: make setup.py's hgcommand() consistently return bytes Before this patch, it returned unicode when the command failed. That made e.g. `make local PYTHON=python3` fail on an obsolete commit. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D8331
author Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@google.com>
date Wed, 25 Mar 2020 18:25:58 -0700
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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.