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transaction: turn lack of locking into a hard failure (API) We have been warning about transactions without locks for about a year (and three releases), third party extensions had a fair grace period to fix their code, we are moving lack of locking to a hard failure in order to protect users against repository corruption.
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@ens-lyon.org>
date Thu, 05 May 2016 16:20:53 +0200
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Mercurial
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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.