README.rst
author Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@google.com>
Fri, 09 Sep 2022 12:45:26 -0700
changeset 49495 59a72267f5ce
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
fsmonitor: migrate Python ABCs from collections to collections.abc The Collections Abstract Base Classes in the collections module are deprecated since Python 3.3 in favor of collections.abc, and removed in Python 3.10.

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.