README.rst
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
Tue, 23 Nov 2021 18:13:33 +0100
changeset 48396 c0d88407b7d4
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
largefile: use the proper "mtime boundary" logic during fixup This will prevent ambiguous cache entry to be used in racy situation. This fix flakiness in test and some real live misbehavior. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11800

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.