README.rst
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
Thu, 07 Mar 2024 04:15:23 +0100
changeset 51536 718f28ea3af4
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
branchcache: add a "pure topological head" fast path In a narrow but actually quick common case, all topological heads are all on the same branch and all open. In this case, computing the branch map is very simple. We can quickly detect situation where this situation will not change. So we update the V3 format to be able to express this situation and upgrade the update code to detect we remains in that mode. The branch cache is populated with the actual value when the branch map is accessed, but the update_disk method can do the update without needing to populate it.

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.