README.rst
author Raphaël Gomès <rgomes@octobus.net>
Wed, 08 Jun 2022 19:15:58 +0200
branchstable
changeset 49337 6cd249556e20
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
rust-status: don't trigger dirstate v1 rewrite when only v2 data is changed The assumption that we need to rewrite (or append to) the dirstate if the ignore pattern hash has changed or if any cached directory mtimes have changed is only valid when using dirstate-v2. In dirstate-v1, neither of these things are written to disk.

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.