README.rst
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
Thu, 02 Feb 2023 17:21:04 +0100
changeset 50558 ef5435e7604e
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
safehasattr: pass attribute name as string instead of bytes This is a step toward replacing `util.safehasattr` usage with plain `hasattr`. The builtin function behave poorly in Python2 but this was fixed in Python3. These change are done one by one as they tend to have a small odd to trigger puzzling breackage.

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.