README.rst
author Raphaël Gomès <rgomes@octobus.net>
Tue, 29 Mar 2022 00:53:11 +0200
changeset 49120 3df46f3a3d6c
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
rust-dirstatemap: implement part of the `setparents` logic The Python code does many round-trip calls to the Rust dirstatemap when copy information needs to be dropped in `setparents`. This may result in improved performance on `commit`, `update` and other such commands, but was mostly done to drop the last use of `set_dirstate_item`. See inline comments for an asterisk about performance, and see next patch for why `set_dirstate_item` has to go. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D12518

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.