README.rst
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
Thu, 02 May 2024 02:20:42 +0200
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parent 46756 c5912e35d06d
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re2: make errors quiet By default, the re2 library will output error on its own instead of keeping the error in an exception. This make re2 printing spurious error before fallback to the stdlib remodule that may accept the pattern or also fails to parse it and raise a proper error that will be handled by Mercurial. So we also pass an Option object that changes this default.

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.