README.rst
author Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@bec.de>
Fri, 30 Apr 2021 02:11:58 +0200
changeset 47043 12450fbea288
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
manifests: push down expected node length into the parser This strictly enforces the node length in the manifest lines according to what the repository expects. One test case moves large hash testing into the non-treemanifest part as treemanifests don't provide an interface for overriding just the node length for now. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10533

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.