README.rst
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 18:55:40 +0000
changeset 51547 8e2a68e10f5c
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
stream: in v3, skip the "size" fast path if the entries as some unknown size We are about to prefetch size during the lock less in the v3 case. So we need to avoid trying to use that prefetched size when it is not available. See next changeset for the motivation.

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.