README.rst
author Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@google.com>
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 16:52:48 -0800
changeset 48772 b70c9697ab41
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
filemerge: put temporary files in single temp dir by default The feature introduced in D2888 seems like a pure improvement to me. It makes the names' of temporary file easier to read. Let's have it always enabled. I also removed the config option for the path prefix because it doesn't seem useful. I asked Kyle (the author of the feature) about it and he couldn't think of a reason to keep it. I suspect it was just that we to have a config to turn it on/off while it was experimental, so it might as well be a configurable prefix then. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D12171

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.