README.rst
author Matt Harbison <matt_harbison@yahoo.com>
Fri, 19 Jul 2024 16:38:53 -0400
changeset 51720 e618a1756b08
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
typing: avoid some useless @overload definitions in `mercurial.util` Apparently pytype considered the name as well as the type of each argument, and generates @overload definitions if they don't match. At best this is clutter, and can easily be removed.

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.