README.rst
author Matt Harbison <matt_harbison@yahoo.com>
Sat, 28 Sep 2024 19:11:39 -0400
changeset 51932 d94e21b5b693
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
mdiff: tweak calls into `bdiff.fixws` to match its type hints It turns out that protocol classes can be used for modules too, which is great because all of the dynamically loaded modules (and their attributes) are currently inferred as `Any`. See the next commit for details. A protocol class for the `bdiff` module detected this (trivial) mismatch, so correct it first. The various implementations of this method are typed as taking a `bool`. The `cext` implementation parses its arguments with `PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "Sb:fixws", &s, &allws)`, which wants an `int`. But experimenting in `hg debugshell` under py38, passing `True` or `False` to `cext.fixws()` also works. We can change the implementation to use "p" (which was introduced in py33) instead of "b", but that's beyond the scope of this.

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.