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blackbox: change year in logs to ISO 8601 format AFAIK, year/month/day is not a format than anyone uses. It seems more sensible to me to use ISO 8601, as that's standard and unambiguously year-month-day. Compatibility-wise, I think it's acceptable to change the default format. It's most for human consumption. It's plausible that a few tools parse this format, but it has already changed in the past (for instance to add the current revision). Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D12006
author Valentin Gatien-Baron <valentin.gatienbaron@gmail.com>
date Mon, 17 Jan 2022 21:20:46 -0500
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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.