README.rst
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
Fri, 19 May 2023 14:49:50 +0200
changeset 50524 58adcabc295f
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
stream-clone: introduce the notion of an experimental "v3" version We introduce a new experimental "v3" stream protocol, disabled by default. In practice the "v3-exp" protocol introduced in this changeset is identical to v2, but this changeset, lay the groundwork for having a new protocol: configuration, capability exchange, test coverage, etc. The actual protocol work will starts in the coming changesets.

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.