README.rst
author pacien <pacien.trangirard@pacien.net>
Tue, 09 Nov 2021 02:19:43 +0100
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changeset 48314 6f43569729d4
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
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tests: accept alternative privileged port allocation failure This registers an additional failure message on failed privileged port allocation, equally funcionally valid but previously not handled and causing the test to fail when run in the NixOS sandbox. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11741

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.