This is release 0.6 of Mercurial, the distributed SCM.
Mercurial is:
- fast: as fast or faster than git or others for all important operations
- easy to use: familiar commands, integrated help, integrated web server
- space efficient: Linux kernel history back to 2.4.0 in 300MB
- bandwidth efficient: 120MB to transfer that history
- distributed: supports decentralized development with arbitrary merging
- scalable: handles large numbers of files and revisions effortlessly
- robust: append-only storage model with journalling and rollback
- lightweight: small Python codebase
Available at http://selenic.com/mercurial/
Linux kernel repository at http://www.kernel.org/hg/
This release contains a huge number of improvements:
improved source tracking
multi-head support
permission tracking
rename and copy tracking
improved tag handling
friendlier, more robust command line interface
integrated help
faster startup
better exception handling
smarter three-way merge helper
improved communication
faster outstanding changeset detection
SSH-based push support
non-transparent proxy support
improved configuration handling
support for .hgrc and .hg/hgrc files
save per-repo defaults for pull
new delta extension
faster, smaller, and simpler than GNU diff or xdiff
faster commit, push/pull, and annotate
improved interoperability
convert-repo framework for importing from other SCMs
can work with gitk and git-viz
portability improvements
tested on big and little-endian 32 and 64-bit UNIX platforms
Windows support is nearly complete
and much more
numerous performance tweaks and bugfixes
automated test suite
updated docs and FAQ
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