README.rst
author Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@google.com>
Thu, 24 Mar 2022 16:09:12 -0700
changeset 49021 51aed118f9dc
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
templates: extract function to `stringutil` for getting first line of text It's surprisingly hard to get the first line from a string, so let's have our own function in `stringutil` for it. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D12404

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.