Download Mercurial 2.2.2

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 svn or subversion. For example, Mercurial is used by SCons and Roundup Issue Tracker. Version 2.2.2 has recently become available with the following list of changes:

Mercurial 2.2.2

This is a regularly scheduled bug fix release.

• addremove: document default similarity behavior (issue3429)
• alias: inherit command optionalrepo flag (issue3298)
• amend: preserve extra dict (issue3430)
• bisect: save current state before running a command
• bugzilla: fix transport initialization on python 2.4
• build: fix hgrc manpage building with docutils 0.9
• bundle: make bundles more portable (issue3441)
• changelog: ensure that nodecache is valid (issue3428)
• hg-ssh: exit with 255 instead of -1 on error
• hgweb: fix filediff base calculation
• largefiles: fix “hg status dir” missing regular files (issue3421)
• largefiles: fix deletion of multiple missing largefiles (issue3329)
• largefiles: follow normal codepath for addremove if non-largefiles repo (issue3249)
• largefiles: in putlfile, ensure tempfile’s directory exists prior to creation
• largefiles: use wlock for lfconvert (issue3444)
• localrepo: clear _filecache earlier to really force reloading (issue3462)
• match: make ‘match.files()’ return list object always
• mq: add –no-backup for qpush/qpop/qgoto
• mq: backup local changes in qpop –force (issue3433)
• mq: backup local changes in qpush –force
• mq: qimport need wlock for –push – do that after releasing lock
• osutil: handle deletion race with readdir/stat (issue3463)
• pager: check if signal.SIGPIPE exists
• pager: preserve Hg’s exit code (and fix Windows support) (issue3225)
• pager: remove quiet flag
• paper, monoblue: link correctly to lines in annotate view
• parsers: fix refcount bug on corrupt index
• patch: fix segfault against unified diffs which start line is zero
• patch: keep patching after missing copy source (issue3480)
• posix: workaround lack of TIOCGWINSZ on Irix (issue3449)
• revpair: handle odd ranges (issue3474)
• revset: explicitely tag alias arguments for expansion
• reset: fix infinite alias expansion detection
• revset: fix traceback for bogus revisions in id(rev)
• revset: make matching() preserve input revision order
• scmutil: seen.union should be seen.update (issue3476)
• subrepo: do not traceback on .hgsubstate parsing errors
• subrepo: ignore blank lines in .hgsubstate (issue3424)
• tag: run commit hook when lock is released (issue3344)
• templater: handle SyntaxError when parsing ui.logtemplate
• util: fix bad variable use in bytecount introduced by f0f7f3fab315
• win32: fix encoding handling for registry strings (issue3467)