mercurial-6.2

[Bruce Dubbs]

New minor version.

[Douglas R. Reno]

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This is the first release to support Python 3.6+ only

New Features

Introduce a way to auto-upgrade a repo for certain requirements (see hg help config.format)

filemerge: add support for partial conflict resolution by external tool

contrib: add a partial-merge tool for sorted lists (such as Python imports)

revlog: reorder p1 and p2 when p1 is null and p2 is not while respecting issue6528

rhg: add support for ignoring all extensions

completion: install completers to conventional locations

revert: ask user to confirm before tracking new file when interactive

Rust implementation now uses the new dirstate API

sslutil: be less strict about which ciphers are allowed when using --insecure

sslutil: support TLSV1_ALERT_PROTOCOL_VERSION reason code

absorb: make --edit-lines imply --apply-changes

diff: add help text to highlight the ability to do merge diffs

censor: make rhg fall back to python when encountering a censored node

clone: use better names for temp files

debuglock: make the command more useful in non-interactive mode

debugdeltachain: distinct between snapshot and other diffs

debugindex: rename to debugindex debug-revlog-index

Make debug-revlog-index give out more information

sparse: use the rust code even when sparse is present

Bug Fixes

Python 3 bugfixes

Windows bugfixes

templates: make firstline filter not keep '\v', '\f' and similar

rhg: sort unsupported extensions in error message

Improve performance of all functions that extract the first line of a text

crecord: avoid duplicating lines when reverting noeol->eol change

Some config.path options are now discoverable via config

mail: don't complain about a multi-word email.method

bundlespec: do not overwrite bundlespec value with the config one

bundlespec: do not check for - in the params portion of the bundlespec

bundlespec: handle the presence of obsmarker part

sparse: start moving away from the global variable for detection of usage

rust-changelog: don't skip empty lines when iterating over changeset lines

narrow: support debugupgraderepo

bundle: quick fix to ludicrous performance penalty

followlines: don't put Unicode directly into the .js file (issue6559)

manifest: improve error message in case for tree manifest

revlog: use %d to format int instead of %lu (issue6565)

revlog: use appropriate format char for int ("i" instead of I")

worker: stop relying on garbage collection to release memoryview

worker: implement _blockingreader.readinto() (issue6444)

worker: avoid potential partial write of pickled data

Backwards Compatibility Changes

Removed Python 2 support: this includes a lot of cleanup in our codebase, automation, testing, etc.

debugindex: rename to debugindex debug-revlog-index

Miscellaneous

Fix typos and add missing items from documentation

dirstate-tree: optimize HashMap lookups with raw_entry_mut

Rust dependencies have been upgraded

revlog: rank computation is done by Rust when available

Improve discovery test tooling

Audit the number of queries done in discovery

Improved .hgignore of the mercurial-devel repository itself

Improve test coverage of dirstate-v2

rust-requirements: allow loading repos with bookmarksinstore requirement

Various Rust refactorings to help with revlog management

Improve debugability of Rust structs

Improve unit testing of the Rust dirstatemap

Improve robustness of the Rust dirstatemap to corruption

Improve changelog-v2 upgrade system

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From ​https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/Release6.2

[Douglas R. Reno]

Fixed at 4a86f18a79d50e2101e5d4fb5b26495940ea67cd