revlog: add a magic null revision to our index We expand our index by one entry so that index[nullrev] points to a unique entry, the null revision. This naturally eliminates numerous extra tests in the performance-sensitive index access functions, most of which are now trivial again. Adding new entries is now done with insert(-1, e) rather than append(e).

Basic install:

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

See http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.