README.rst
author Matt Harbison <matt_harbison@yahoo.com>
Thu, 26 Aug 2021 11:04:14 -0400
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hg: don't attempt to extend `sys.path` with the user site without `APPDATA` This variable is created by the system and *should* be available, but test-lfs-bundle.t has a test where it is explicitly unset. It wasn't caught before because prior to 95af358fcdfe, it was limited to the py2exe binary. As a precaution, fix both that and the pyoxidizer case that was causing the test to fail. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11354

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.