readme: mention how to run in-place
authorRoss Lagerwall <rosslagerwall@gmail.com>
Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:43:55 +0200
changeset 16217 df5ecb813426
parent 16216 7d2cafcc80b0
child 16218 81a1a00f5738
readme: mention how to run in-place The README describes how to install Mercurial but it does not describe how to run it in place (for developers). This adds a short paragraph to the README describing how to do run Mercurial inplace.
README
--- a/README	Fri Mar 02 14:12:06 2012 -0600
+++ b/README	Fri Mar 02 21:43:55 2012 +0200
@@ -11,5 +11,10 @@
  $ 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 http://mercurial.selenic.com/ for detailed installation
 instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.