From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Mackall Subject: Mercurial 0.6 released! Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:24:07 -0700 Message-ID: <20050624212407.GV27572@waste.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jun 24 23:24:51 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dlvep-00014W-4a for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 23:24:15 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263267AbVFXVaX (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2005 17:30:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263215AbVFXVaU (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2005 17:30:20 -0400 Received: from waste.org ([216.27.176.166]:59607 "EHLO waste.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263267AbVFXVYP (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2005 17:24:15 -0400 Received: from waste.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by waste.org (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id j5OLO7Y1001657 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 24 Jun 2005 16:24:07 -0500 Received: (from oxymoron@localhost) by waste.org (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j5OLO76w001654; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 16:24:07 -0500 To: mercurial@selenic.com, linux-kernel , git@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org This is release 0.6 of Mercurial, the distributed SCM. Mercurial is: - fast: as fast or faster than git or others for all important operations - easy to use: familiar commands, integrated help, integrated web server - space efficient: Linux kernel history back to 2.4.0 in 300MB - bandwidth efficient: 120MB to transfer that history - distributed: supports decentralized development with arbitrary merging - scalable: handles large numbers of files and revisions effortlessly - robust: append-only storage model with journalling and rollback - lightweight: small Python codebase Available at http://selenic.com/mercurial/ Linux kernel repository at http://www.kernel.org/hg/ This release contains a huge number of improvements: improved source tracking multi-head support permission tracking rename and copy tracking improved tag handling friendlier, more robust command line interface integrated help faster startup better exception handling smarter three-way merge helper improved communication faster outstanding changeset detection SSH-based push support non-transparent proxy support improved configuration handling support for .hgrc and .hg/hgrc files save per-repo defaults for pull new delta extension faster, smaller, and simpler than GNU diff or xdiff faster commit, push/pull, and annotate improved interoperability convert-repo framework for importing from other SCMs can work with gitk and git-viz portability improvements tested on big and little-endian 32 and 64-bit UNIX platforms Windows support is nearly complete and much more numerous performance tweaks and bugfixes automated test suite updated docs and FAQ -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.