README.rst
author Matt Harbison <matt_harbison@yahoo.com>
Tue, 06 Sep 2022 15:08:52 -0400
branchstable
changeset 49490 37debd850c16
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
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packaging: update dulwich to drop the certifi dependency on Windows The presence of `certifi` causes the system certificate store to be ignored, which was reported as a bug against TortoiseHg[1]. It was only pulled in on Windows because of `dulwich`, which was copied from the old TortoiseHg install scripts, in order to support `hg-git`. This version of `dulwich` raises the minimum `urllib3` to a version (1.25) that does certificate verification by default, without the help of `certifi`[2]. We already bundle a newer version of `urllib3`. Note that `certifi` can still be imported from the user site directory, if installed there. But the installer no longer disables the system certificates by default. [1] https://foss.heptapod.net/mercurial/tortoisehg/thg/-/issues/5825 [2] https://github.com/jelmer/dulwich/issues/1025

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.