README.rst
author Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@google.com>
Thu, 20 Jan 2022 13:43:43 -0800
changeset 48583 a809f1465a76
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
filemerge: set default labels a little earlier By setting the default labels a little earlier, we can rely on them always being set, as far as I can tell. It may actually even be fine to rely on that even if we don't set them earlier, but it makes more sense to me to do it. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D12015

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.