README.rst
author Matt Harbison <matt_harbison@yahoo.com>
Fri, 04 Nov 2022 17:54:43 -0400
changeset 49574 2506c3ac73f4
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
vfs: make the default opener mode binary The default was already binary for `abstractvfs`, and the `vfs` implementation adds binary mode if the caller didn't supply it. Therefore, it should be safe for all vfs objects (and I don't think we want text reads anyway).

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.