README.rst
author Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@google.com>
Thu, 20 Jan 2022 11:00:30 -0800
changeset 48578 77e24ee8994b
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
simplemerge: take arguments as annotated context objects The labels we put in conflict markers are formatted so the part before the ':' (typically says things like "local") is padded so the ':' is aligned among the labels. That means that if you specify a long label for "base" but the conflict marker style is "merge" (i.e. 2-way), the other two will have unwanted padding. We often don't specify a label for the base, so we don't notice the problem (and it may very well be that it didn't exist before my D11972). I think the best fix is to pass the labels along with the context objects, so the low-level code that switches on the marker style to use (i.e. `simplemerge`) can do the formatting. This patch starts doing that by passing a fully-formatted label to `simplemerge`. A coming patch will move the formatting to `simplemerge`. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D12013

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.