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1 Welcome to Mercurial for Windows!
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2 ---------------------------------
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4 For configuration and usage directions, please read the ReadMe.html
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5 file that comes with this package.
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7 Release Notes
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10 2006-05-10 v0.9
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14 - The repository file format has been improved.
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15 - This has resulted in an average 40% reduction in disk space usage.
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16 - The new format (called RevlogNG) is now the default.
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17 - Mercurial works perfectly with both the old and new repository
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18 file formats. It can transfer changes transparently between
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19 repositories of either format.
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20 - To use the new repository format, simply use `hg clone --pull` to
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21 clone an existing repository.
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22 - Note: Versions 0.8.1 and earlier of Mercurial cannot read
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23 RevlogNG repositories directly, but they can `clone`, `pull`
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25 repositories.
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26 - Memory usage has been improved by over 50% for many common operations.
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27 - Substantial performance improvements on large repositories.
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28 - New commands:
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29 - 'archive' - generate a directory tree snapshot, tarball, or zip
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31 - Deprecated commands:
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32 - 'addremove' - replaced by 'add' and 'remove --after'
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34 - 'undo' - replaced by 'rollback'
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35 - New extensions:
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36 - Bugzilla integration hook
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37 - Email notification hook
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38 - Nested repositories are now supported. Mercurial will not recurse
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41 - The standalone web server, 'hg serve', is now threaded, so it can
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44 - Support added for hooks written in Python.
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45 - Many improvements and clarifications to built-in help.
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48 2006-04-07 v0.8.1
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50 * Major changes from 0.8 to 0.8.1:
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52 - new extensions:
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53 mq (manage a queue of patches, like quilt only better)
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54 email (send changes as series of email patches)
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56 - improved commands: log (--limit option added), pull/push ("-r" works
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58 - comprehensive hook support
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59 - output templating added, supporting e.g. GNU changelog style
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60 - Windows, Mac OS X: prebuilt binary packages, better support
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61 - many reliability, performance, and memory usage improvements
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64 2006-01-29 v0.8
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66 * Upgrade notes:
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70 - GPG signing is now done with the gpg extension
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76 - faster status, diff, and commit
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77 - reduced memory usage for push and pull
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78 - improved extension API
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79 - new bisect, gpg, hgk, and win32text extensions
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89 System-wide - C:\Mercurial\Mercurial.ini
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90 Per-user - C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Mercurial.ini
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92 A default version of the system-wide INI file is installed with
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93 Mercurial. No per-user INI file is installed, but it will be
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96 * Windows line endings are now handled automatically and correctly by
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97 the update and commit commands. See the INI file for how to
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100 * NOTE: Much of the rest of the Mercurial code does not handle Windows
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102 for example, will appear huge until I fix this.
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104 * Packaged text files now have correct Windows line endings.
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107 2005-09-21 v0.7 with modifications
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111 * I believe it to be mostly functional, with one exception: there is
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112 no support yet for DOS <-> Unix line ending conversion.