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Rodrigo Damazio Bovendorp authored
This increases safety of using absorb by both aborting when another operation
is in progress (since the absorption could confuse any other command a lot)
and holding the locks throughout the reading of the working directory (for
which changes to absorb) and the reading of the repo (for which changes to
absorb into).

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D6237
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Mercurial
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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.