Download Mercurial 1.8

Mercurial is a program for software and project developers, among others, with which management and version control over data and source code can be performed. The program can be seen as a direct competitor to the well-known cvs, svn or subversion. Mercurial, for example, has recently been used by the development team behind Python, as in this maillist posting can be read. Mercurial 1.8 has recently been released with the following list of changes:

core:

• Bookmarks are now a core feature (see UpgradeNotes)
• New listfile: pattern-matching (patterns)
• Revset syntax supported by most commands
• Performance improvements for reading large repository indexes
• Certificate validation for HTTPS proxies

Sub-repos:

• New support for git subrepos
• Various improvements to merge, update, and commit logic

Windows:

• Numerous robustness improvements for quirks in Windows file handling
• Now uses the native ctypes module rather than PyWin32

extensions:

• eol: filter aliases for compatibility with win32text
• mq: –exact option for qpush
• mq: various robustness improvements
• progress: remaining time estimates