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Clarified message when nothing to merge is seen. Sometimes there's a non-tip head waiting to be merged, especially after pulling in remote changes while there were local modifications in the working directory which had to be committed before 'hg merge' can work.
author Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas@intevation.de>
date Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:14:29 +0200
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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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8 -------------
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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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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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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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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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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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48 2006-04-07 v0.8.1
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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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64 2006-01-29 v0.8
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76 - faster status, diff, and commit
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89 System-wide - C:\Mercurial\Mercurial.ini
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93 Mercurial. No per-user INI file is installed, but it will be
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100 * NOTE: Much of the rest of the Mercurial code does not handle Windows
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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.