README.rst
author Georges Racinet on incendie.racinet.fr <georges@racinet.fr>
Fri, 27 Oct 2023 21:48:45 +0200
changeset 51234 59183a19954e
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
rust-index: use interior mutability in head revs and caches For upcoming changes in `hg-cpython` switching to the `hg-core` index in ancestors iterators, we will need to avoid excessive mutability, restricting the use of mutable references on `hg::index::Index` to methods that actually logically mutate it, whereas the maintenance of caches such as `head_revs` clearly does not. We illustrate that immediately by switching to immutable borrows in the corresponding methods of `hg-cpython::MixedIndex`

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.