README.rst
author Arun Kulshreshtha <akulshreshtha@janestreet.com>
Wed, 10 Aug 2022 15:01:50 -0400
changeset 49422 3681a47611b8
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
dispatch: change cwd when loading local config Previously, the `_getlocal` function would not correctly load the repo config when given a relative `rpath` and an alternate cwd via the `wd` parameter. Normally when `--cwd` is specified, hg changes to the given directory before attempting to load the local config (and therefore does not specify a `wd`). The only time the function is called with `wd` set is when hg is running as a command server (e.g., with chg), in which case each forked worker process will attempt to configure itself via `_getlocal` before responding to the client. When given a relative repo path, the worker fails to load the repo config, detects a config mismatch with the client, and enters a redirect/respawn loop. To fix this, we can simply change to the desired working directory during config loading. (Note that simply concatenating `wd` and `rpath` won't work in all cases. The repo path could be something more complicated than a simple relative path, such as a `union:` repo.)

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.