mercurial-6.5.3

[Bruce Dubbs]

New point version.

[pierre]

The question is whether we need mercurial at all, now that openjdk development has moved to github, and mozilla development to gitlab... Let's ask the list.

[pierre]

Replying to pierre:

The question is whether we need mercurial at all, now that openjdk development has moved to github, and mozilla development to gitlab... Let's ask the list.

This is not true, sorry. Mozilla development is still on mercurial. Various repos on github are "read only git mirror of [mercurial repos]"

[pierre]

Mercurial 6.5.3

• "hgweb: pass strings in WSGI environment correctly from wsgicgi"
• "perf: introduce more cache invalidation option in perf::tags"
• "perf: add a --clear-fnode-cache-rev argument to perf::tags"
• "perf: add a --update-last flag to perf::tags"
• "blackbox: add a option to duplicate output to stderr too"
• "tags: avoid expensive access to repo.changelog in a loop"
• "revlog: fix a bug where NULL_NODE failed to be resolved to NULL_REV"
• "httppeer: fix static-http: scheme autodetection (issue6833)"
• "tests: backed out changeset 8037ddacad47"
• "stream-clone: fix a crash when a repo with an empty revlog is cloned"
• "censor: accept censored revision during upgrade"
• "revlog: avoid opening and closing the file for each cloned revision"

[pierre]

sed for rust tests is still needed

[Xi Ruoyao]

Replying to pierre:

Replying to pierre:

The question is whether we need mercurial at all, now that openjdk development has moved to github, and mozilla development to gitlab... Let's ask the list.

This is not true, sorry. Mozilla development is still on mercurial. Various repos on github are "read only git mirror of [mercurial repos]"

"Mozilla is anticipating at least six months before the full Git transition begins."

I guess we cannot archive hg before BLFS 12.2 then.

[pierre]

Fixed at 10c5df84cd