README.rst
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
Tue, 07 Feb 2023 10:16:25 +0100
changeset 50202 fef5bca96513
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
record: drop a now useless overlay that grab the lock Since 28dfb2df4ab9, commit grab the wlock and the extra layer grabing the lock in record is no longer needed. We clean up the code to make this simpler (and add a small assert for extra security against future change).

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.