README.rst
author Georges Racinet <georges.racinet@octobus.net>
Fri, 20 Oct 2023 09:48:53 +0200
changeset 51246 41e19e8a6133
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
rust-index: stop using C index We still keep its wrapper implementation in `hg-cpython::cindex`, because we might want to recreate ancestors handling objects using it for the case of REVLOGV2. Also, we still instantiate it (from Python code) and store it as attribute, for the likes of `get_cindex` and the caller that relies on it, but that is soon to be removed, too.

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.