README.rst
author Georges Racinet on incendie.racinet.fr <georges@racinet.fr>
Fri, 27 Oct 2023 23:29:29 +0200
changeset 51238 633408a0f2e2
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
revlog: always use a Rust index for REVLOGv1 if rustext is present We are about to change classes such as `rustext.AncestorsIterator` to take a Rust index, hence we cannot have the option not to use the Rust index. Note: this can be refined depending on whether we want to keep this option or not. We will have to make two versions of `AncestorsIterator` and its sibling to support REVLOGV2 and CHANGELOGv2 anyway. Meanwhile, this is the simplest change to make the tests pass.

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.