README.rst
author Anton Shestakov <av6@dwimlabs.net>
Mon, 31 Jan 2022 18:13:00 +0300
changeset 48789 ef50a62eec40
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
obsolete: don't use os.stat in repo.obsstore.__nonzero__ if it's static HTTP If a repo is accessed via static HTTP, then we obviously can't use os.stat() to just peek at the file size. Let's download the entire file to check its size. Yes, this feels wasteful, but: 1. If we're cloning or pulling a repo from a static HTTP server, we need the contents of the obsstore anyway. 2. Implementing statichttpvfs.stat() that uses HEAD will result in one more request to a static-only HTTP server, which is already slow. Also parsing a response to a HEAD request to construct os.stat_result is pretty hacky. There's also a question of the remote server properly supporting HEAD method and reporting at least file size. 3. Implementing statichttpvfs.stat() that uses GET is pretty much the same thing as we do here, except we can't even cache the response easily, unlike simply accessing obsstore._data, which is @propertycache'd. Importing statichttprepo locally to avoid circular import. See also: 4507bc001365 and commit message of f8f2ecdde4b5. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D12195

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.