README.rst
author Raphaël Gomès <rgomes@octobus.net>
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 14:49:35 +0200
changeset 51868 db7dbe6f7bb2
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
rust: add Vfs trait This will allow for the use of multiple vfs like in the Python implementation, as well as hiding the details of the upcoming Python vfs wrapper to hg-core.

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.