Mercurial 1.6 released

[Posted July 1, 2010 by jake]

From:		Matt Mackall <mpm-AT-selenic.com>
To:		mercurial-AT-selenic.com
Subject:		Mercurial 1.6 released!
Date:		Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:28:37 -0500
Message-ID:		<1278005317.9937.3.camel@calx>

The two most important new features of this release are:

* pushable bookmarks. This lets you synchronize bookmarks between
repositories using push and pull.

* a powerful new revision query language.

Full details here:

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WhatsNew

Available for download at:

http://mercurial.selenic.com/release/mercurial-1.6.tar.gz

We would like to thank the following new contributors for their help
with this release:

Chad Dombrova
David Greenaway
Dévai Tamás
Eric Eisner
Jan Sorensen
Javi Merino
Jeff Schiller
Julian Cowley
Julien Malherbe
Maxim Khitrov
Pradeepkumar Gayam
Renato Cunha
Simon Howkins
Stanimir Stamenkov
Vishakh H
bttfmcf

These are just the new names -- thanks also to all our regular
contributors!



-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.

Pu*shable bookmarks

Posted Jul 1, 2010 20:39 UTC (Thu) by dfsmith (guest, #20302) [Link]

I read pushable bookmarks as "punishable bookmarks" and thought "hmm, must be like svn blame taken to the next level". It would actually be useful....

Mercurial 1.6 released

Posted Jul 2, 2010 2:10 UTC (Fri) by nevyn (guest, #33129) [Link] (4 responses)

In case anyone else is trying to find it, this is the only documentation I could find on the new revision query language:

http://www.selenic.com/blog/?p=613

Mercurial 1.6 released

Posted Jul 2, 2010 19:28 UTC (Fri) by faheem (guest, #47574) [Link] (3 responses)

hg help revsets?

Also included in

man hg

SPECIFYING REVISION SETS

(PS. first post to LWN)

Mercurial 1.6 released

Posted Jul 5, 2010 4:08 UTC (Mon) by doogie (guest, #2445) [Link] (2 responses)

Installing a new version of the software just to read it's built-in help will end up doing the exact opposite. I want to read about a new feature *before* I install it, so that I can actually see if it is worth my time.

Mercurial 1.6 released

Posted Jul 5, 2010 5:46 UTC (Mon) by NicDumZ (guest, #65935) [Link] (1 responses)

You can always generate the doc on our machine without installing hg:

make doc; $BROWSER "doc/hg.1.html#specifying-revision-sets"

make local; ./hg help revsets

If you're really impatient, I've uploaded a version online, it's here, and the section on revsets is here.

(http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ManPages usually links you to the man page; give us a couple of hours so we can replace the page with the 1.6 documentation :)

Mercurial 1.6 released

Posted Jul 5, 2010 14:12 UTC (Mon) by doogie (guest, #2445) [Link]

Why would I have the software downloaded, if I hadn't yet been able to see the list of new features which would make me want to download it in the first place?

This is more of a general issue I have with software projects that don't describe themselves.