README.rst
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
Tue, 06 Jul 2021 16:12:09 +0200
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changeset 47504 411dc27fd9fd
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
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corruption: backout changeset 49fd21f32695 (issue6528) inverting the parent is masking copy information leading to bad content being fetched and bad status result. Since 49fd21f32695, exchange can actively swap these parent corrupting existing changesets and triggering the corruption. Data corruption are considered critical so backing this out and doing and unscheduled release seems in order. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10995

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.