README.rst
author Kyle Lippincott <spectral@google.com>
Thu, 04 Jan 2018 16:29:07 -0800
changeset 36236 564dec70b50c
parent 34579 1b59287a1cfa
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debugcommands: print out the editor that was searched for (post shlexsplit) A user was in #mercurial and had the following settings in their hgrc: [ui] editor = C:\home\npp\notepad++.exe -multiInst -nosession After shlexsplit, the first argument was mangled into C:homenppnotepad++.exe, which was quite unlikely to exist. It took many back-and-forths to identify that adding " characters around the exe would fix the issue; we were thinking that it's because something was incorrectly *not* splitting and adding/moving the " characters fixed the split boundaries, but when testing afterward it appears that it's just mangled. I considered adding an informational if pycompat.iswindows and \ in the string about this issue, but was worried that might have too many false positives and did not do so at this time. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D1808

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.