README.rst
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
Tue, 05 Apr 2022 03:36:31 +0200
changeset 49196 1c233af99316
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
auto-upgrade: add a test case with no permission to lock the repository This show the current behavior when the repository is unlockable. The current behavior is to abort, which is probably not great. Now that we have a proper test, we can think about the behavior we want in a later changeset. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D12615

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.