README.rst
author Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@google.com>
Tue, 23 Feb 2021 10:28:42 -0800
changeset 47020 ba6881c6a178
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
rewriteutil: check for divergence This code is adapted from the code in the evolve extension. It seems to be equivalent as far as the evolve extension's test suite can tell (the only impact when making their `precheck()` delegate to our version is that error messages are less detailed). I had to change the error message to work with "change branch of" being inserted as the action. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10518

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.