README.rst
author Anton Shestakov <av6@dwimlabs.net>
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 13:45:41 +0300
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rebase: use obsolete.isenabled() to check for experimental.allowdivergence Now that obsolete.isenabled() can also check if divergence is allowed, let's use it for consistency. Other experimental.evolution options are already checked via this function. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11221

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.