README
author Augie Fackler <augie@google.com>
Tue, 13 Sep 2016 22:58:12 -0400
changeset 30024 f3c4edfd35e1
parent 26421 4b0fc75f9403
child 33618 76b171209151
permissions -rw-r--r--
help: mark boolean flags with [no-] to explain that they can be negated That is, help gets tweaked thus: global options ([+] can be repeated): -v --[no-]verbose enable additional output Other proposals have included: global options ([+] can be repeated, options marked [?] are boolean flags): -v --verbose[?] enable additional output and global options ([+] can be repeated, options marked [^] are boolean flags): -v --verbose[^] enable additional output which avoid the unfortunate visual noise in this patch. In this version's favor, it's consistent with what I'm used to seeing in man pages and similar documentation venues.

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
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