README.rst
author Manuel Jacob <me@manueljacob.de>
Sat, 13 Apr 2019 03:44:55 +0200
changeset 50420 45c7bada5200
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
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hidden: add support to explicitly access hidden changesets with SSH peers This implements support for using --remote-hidden with an SSH server. The remote `hg serve --stdio` call is passed the `--hidden` flag as a request to access hidden changesets. This approach has benefits similar to the one we used for HTTP peers. It * works around the lack of global parameters in wire protocol v1, * reuses the `--hidden` flag (that does not use the wireproto), and * can be safely ignored by older client (fitting the best effort contract). Same as for HTTP, the feature is experimental so we have all the room we needs to update the implementation in the future if deemed necessary. The SSH version of the `--remote-hidden` config uses the same configuration as the HTTP support to control the access to this feature. The name of the user running the command is used for the checking. Test written by Pierre-Yves David.

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.