README.rst
author Arseniy Alekseyev <aalekseyev@janestreet.com>
Tue, 09 Apr 2024 11:12:24 +0100
changeset 51602 68929cf3c0c6
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
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match: avoid rust fast path if the matcher was tampered with Otherwise the fast path does not respect the modifications made by the extension (concretely largefiles, but other extensions can start using that too)

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.