README.rst
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
Mon, 19 Apr 2021 19:12:28 +0200
changeset 46986 faa43f09ad98
parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
permissions -rw-r--r--
streamclone: remove sleep based "synchronisation" in tests Sleep based test synchronisation does not work. Variation in machine performance and load can make the two process miss their windows. Instead we migrate to explicit signaling through the file system as other tests file are using. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10478

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.