Release notes:
This is a monthly bugfix release.
* archive: set date to 1980 for very old zip files
* bookmarks: fix _bookmarks/lookup() reentrancy issue (issue2016)
* context: fix filectx.undelete() (issue2388)
* convert/darcs: handle non-ASCII metadata in darcs changelog (issue2354)
* convert/svn: fix broken symlink renames in svn sink
* core: use lexists() instead of exists() where appropriate
* hgweb: Fix memory leak when using hg commands over http repositories
* hgweb: correct Content-Type header values for archive downloads
* log: include unmodified-in-merge files in log diff/stat (issue2383)
* mq: always require --force when pushing patches (issue2363)
* patch: do not overwrite broken untracked symlinks
* patch: fix rename text to binary file (issue2400)
* patch: fix target when patching broken symlinks (issue2368)
* patch: upgrade to git patch when removing binary file
* rename: do not overwrite existing broken symlinks
* url: verify correctness of https server certificates (issue2407)
* util: avoid using hashlib on Python < 2.5 (issue2278)
* verify: fix "missing revlog!" errors for revlog format v0 and add test
This is a monthly bugfix release. It includes several significant fixes,
including a fix for a long-standing hardlink corruption issue on Windows.
alias: make shadowing behavior more consistent (issue2054)
bisect: better message for unrelated starting revisions
bookmarks: Check if the bookmark to delete exists on the remote
bookmarks: guard against listing bookmarks on unsupported repos
chunkbuffer: use += rather than cStringIO to reduce memory footprint
convert: Using --dest-type svn crashed, if the source repo used tags.
convert: properly set encoding for gnuarch converter
convert: use encoding.encoding instead of locale.getpreferredencoding()
encoding: improve handling of buggy getpreferredencoding() on Mac OS X
graphlog: mark --branch as incompatible with --graph
http basic auth: reset redirect counter on new requests (issue2255)
httprepo: decompress stream incrementally to reduce memory usage
log: fix the bug 'hg log --stat -p == hg log --stat'
mercurial.spec: gettext is a build requirement for getting proper
localization
merge: drop reference to file contents after write
merge: move reverse-merge logic out of filemerge (issue2342)
merge: fix detection of conflict markers with checkconflicts enabled
mq: don't inherit default and default-push paths with --mq (issue2333)
resolve: updated help documentation for improved clarity
revlog: drop cache after use to save memory footprint
templatefilters: unnest uescape()
templates: add filenolink to raw style (issue2332)
url: expand vars in all [auth] settings (issue2328)
url: limit expansion to safe auth keys (Issue2328)
util: avoid using hashlib on Python < 2.5 (issue2278)
verify: initialize rp variable in case we hit out of memory
verify: reduce memory footprint when unpacking files
verify: report exceptions that don't have a str() method
win32: correctly break hardlinks on network drives (issue761)
1.5.4 (2010-06-01)
This is a scheduled monthly minor bugfix release.
dispatch: include Python version in traceback
push: update help
status: avoid performance regression when no .hgsub is present
clone: fix performance issue with hardlinks and Windows shares
hgweb: fix race in refreshing repo list (issue2188)
hgrc: clarify that hgrc keys can be overridden and sections can be split
eol: new extension for managing file newlines based on a version controlled configuration file
pager: fork and exec pager as parent process with /bin/sh -c
rebase: stress that only local changesets should be rebased
convert/svn: close gettags() log stream (issue2196)
record: check that we are not committing a merge before patch selection
Core
- improve warning on adding large files
- expand ~ in auth filenames and aliases
- several improvements to patch parsing
- warn about attempts to use hg branch to switch branches
- push: fix bug in prepush logic and its tests
- hgweb: fix broken URLs of RSS/Atom feeds
- subrepo: several bug fixes
Extensions
- acl: added support for '*' (everyone) in user list
- progress: use stderr instead of stdout
- schemes: add Kiln On Demand to default schemes
This is a minor bugfix release.
core
* config: raise ConfigError on non-existing include files
* alias: do not crash when aliased command has no usage help text
* auth: allow specifying auth sections in .hg/hgrc
* patch: fix handling of chunk offsets
* subrepo: add default path to new clones
* docs: Fix rst2html detection
extensions
* convert/svn: better handling of hg recursive call failure
* convert/svn: make sink recover gracefully from empty changeset
* keyword: fix interaction with transplant
* mq: preserve --git flag when folding and merging patches
* mq: qnew -f rejects merge working directories
* mq: qpop: remove added files before re-adding removed files
* patchbomb: handle repository#rev URLs correctly
* share: use defaultdest to compute unspecified destination
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WhatsNew
1.4.1 - 2009-12-01
regression fixes
- fix to prepush logic when it creates new heads
- fix qseries truncation
other
- doc fixes: formatting, missing options
- tests fixes (now less dependent on environment variables)
- inotify fixes
- keyword: allow RCSfile like CVS
- share: fix a bad interaction with clone
- show non-default branch names with summary -q
- new schemes extension
- i18n updates
Changes (http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WhatsNew):
1.4 - 2009-11-16
Core
summary: new command summarizes current working state
tags: new tag cache greatly speeds up tag operations
diff: new --stat option to show diffstat
diff: add --reverse option to diff
subrepo: fix a bunch of issues with the experimental subrepo extension
status: fixes for behavior when working with clock skew
clone: new -u/--updaterev option
templater: new latesttag and latesttagdistance keywords
push/pull: handle some broken pipe errors during large transfers
config: environment variables and ~user constructs are expanded in pathnames
Hgweb
fix for showing header lines in raw changeset diffs
try to send better error messages to the client
use config-supplied ordering by default in hgwebdir index pages
add web.descend option to disable showing all nested repositories in hgwebdir
Documentation and help
new config help topic
help texts are now written in reStructuredText format
many translation updates including a new Swedish translation
many help text updates and improvements
Submitted by: Yuri Ryazantsev <yuri@unix.ru>
Regression fixes:
- fixed excessive memory usage issues with diff and strip
- fixed ssh performance issue on OS X
- fixed slow calculation of branch heads
- fixed handling of port numbers in URLs
- fixed transaction handling exception
- fixed incoming with graphlog extension
- fixed slow commit in fetch extension
- fixed loading of win32mbcs extension
Other fixes:
- fixed http username handling in acl extension
- fixed subrepo path joining on Windows
- allow update --check to cross branches
- miscellaneous small doc and bug fixes
PR: ports/137182
Submitted by: Marco Broeder <marco.broeder@gmx.eu>
Yuri Ryazantsev <yuri@unix.ru>
Full list of changes: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WhatsNew)
Version 1.3 - 2009-07-01
Major Changes
* experimental support for sub-repositories
* Python 2.3 is no longer supported; now requires Python 2.4-2.6
Web interface
* read configuration data from webdir configs
* add branches page to hgweb
* pluggable templater engine support
* refresh hgwebdir configuration periodically
* let web.encoding override ui.encoding setting
* deal with dicts/lists like webdir config paths
Extensions
* experimental share extension
* the alias extension has been moved into core
* several fixes/changes in extensions.
Submitted by: Yuri Ryazantsev <yuri@unix.ru>
Version 1.2.1 - 2009-03-20
This is a bugfix release.
* fixed version number build from tarball
* fix allow_read logic for hgweb
* improve handling of damaged revlogs in verify
* keep .orig files when resolving
* clear resolve state properly when rebasing
* improve --command handling with bisect
* fix diff against bundles
* improve fetch logic for inactive branches
* fix diffstat with notify
* fix 'synthetic file adds' in CVS conversion
Version 1.2 - 2009-03-04
General features:
* explicit closing of named branches via hg commit --close-branch
* hg now accepts options given after arguments on the commandline
* added translation support with initial Danish, Chinese, Japanese, and
* Italian translations
* added optional pure-Python versions of C modules
* pending changesets can now be accessed safely from hooks
* diff: added -c option to show single changeset
* many improvements to the documentation and online help topics
Extensions:
* convert:
o new support for perforce sources
o improvements to handling cvs sources
o improvements to handling gnu arch source
o improvements to handling darcs sources
* bookmarks:
o set current to new when current is renamed
o bookmarks: Add track.current option
o bookmarks: add bookmarks to tags
* mq: allow qpop when it won't invalidate any dirstate parents
* patchbomb: respect diff settings
* rebase: pull --rebase updates if there is nothing to rebase
* bugzilla: updated to work with Bugzilla 3.2
* zeroconf: added more documentation
* hgk: add several color settings
* the imerge extension has been removed (obsoleted by the resolve command)
Submitted by: Yuri Ryazantsev <yuri@unix.ru>
There are many changes in this bugfix release (relative to 1.1.1) compared
to our previous 1.0.2. Please check the release notes at the following url
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/WhatsNew
Sorry for the time it took (and versions skipped).
Submitted by: Guy Brand <gb@isis.u-strasbg.fr>
Heavily modified: me
Asked by: several
This is a relatively small bugfix release with two security fixes.
* ensure that git patches only touch files within the repository
(CVE-2008-2942)
* hgweb: fix "allowpull" permission being ignored when pulling from hgweb
Complete set of changes:
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/WhatsNew
General:
* greatly improved merge tool configuration, see "hgrc.5.txt" for details
* improved copy/rename handling in diffs, status, and merge
* files in .hg inherit permissions from .hg/store
* infer --repository when possible, so commands may be run from anywhere.
* easy-installable
* new "droplet" logo
Extensions:
* churn: promoted to an official extension (previously in contrib)
* color: new extension coloring "status" and "qseries" command outputs
* convert:
- allow synthetic history to be spliced in with --splicemap
- support GNU Arch and Monotone sources
- svn: allow shallow conversions of single branches with
convert.svn.startrev option.
- svn: make trunk/branches/tags layout detection more flexible by allowing
either of them to be skipped.
- svn: preliminary support as a conversion target
* hgk: configuration file changed from .gitk to .hgk
* highlight: new extension enabling syntax highlighting in hgweb file
view (requires pygments)
* inotify: new extension using Linux 2.6 inotify API for instant status
checking
* keyword: new extension for filewise RCS-keyword expansion in working
directory
* mq: new --currentdate, --date, --currentuser, and --user options
* record: add "qrecord" command when used with mq
* win32mbcs: new extension dealing with problematic MBCS behavior on Windows
Web interface:
* improved WSGI integration and compatibility
* follow symlinks in hgwebdir collections
* show branches in most of gitweb templates
* add line anchors to annotate, changeset, diff and file views
* support web.baseurl in hgwebdir, overriding SCRIPT_NAME
Announce: http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2007-October/015150.html
Highlights:
* New extensions: alias, children, imerge, interhg, record
* hgweb: support for Atom feeds
* convert extension: support for Subversion and Darcs
NOTE: I've removed the .egg-info file from pkg-plist, the port does not seem
to create it (manual install does) so removing the port fails.
Submitted by: Piet Delport <pjdelport@gmail.com>
PR: ports/117363
OS X only utility (FileMerge). The bug has been fixed recently but as it
is irrelevant to FreeBSD, remove the offending line to avoid tripping on
the bug on older systems.
This should fix hgmerge on these systems.
Reminded by: tobez
