Mercurial 1.6 released [LWN.net]

Mercurial 1.6 released

Posted Jul 5, 2010 4:08 UTC (Mon) by doogie (guest, #2445)
In reply to: Mercurial 1.6 released by faheem
Parent article: Mercurial 1.6 released

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.

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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.