README.rst
author Manuel Jacob <me@manueljacob.de>
Fri, 06 Mar 2020 10:52:44 +0100
changeset 44449 ff72bd52d56a
parent 34579 1b59287a1cfa
child 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
tests: avoid implicit conversion of str to unicode On Python 2, str.encode('utf-8') implicitly converts the string to unicode and then back to str. Using _sys2bytes() ensures that opt is only encoded on Python 3, where opt is unicode. Although contrived, before this change, a UnicodeDecodeError could be triggered on Python 2 when passing non-ascii values to --extra-config-opt.

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.