README.rst
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 11:24:20 +0000
changeset 51548 1b17eeba9deb
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
stream-clone: stop getting the file size of all file in v3 The point of v3 is to do less work in the locked section. It was currently not the case. This significantly boost performance. The following number comes from a large private repository using perf::stream-locked-section: base-line: 35.03 seconds this-change: 24.50 seconds (-30%)

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.