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= Mercurial 6.3 =
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== New Features ==
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 * testlib: add `--raw-sha1` option to `f`
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 * rhg: add `config.rhg` helptext
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 * config: add alias from `hg help rhg` to `hg help rust`
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 * rhg: add a config option to fall back immediately
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 * bundle: introduce a --exact option
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 * perf-bundle: add a new command to benchmark bundle creation time
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 * perf-bundle: accept --rev arguments
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 * perf-bundle: accept --type argument
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 * perf-unbundle: add a perf command to time the unbundle operation
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 * perf: introduce a benchmark for delta-find
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 * contrib: add support for rhel9
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 * phase-shelve: Implement a 'shelve.store' experimental config
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 * debug-delta-find: introduce a quiet mode
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 * sort-revset: introduce a `random` variant
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 * phase: introduce a dedicated requirement for the `archived` phase
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 * rebase: add boolean config item rebase.store-source
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 * rhg: make [rhg status -v] work when it needs no extra output
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 * rhg: support "!" syntax for disabling extensions
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 * rhg: add debugrhgsparse command to help figure out bugs in rhg
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 * rhg: add sparse support
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 * rhg-status: add support for narrow clones
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 * templates: add filter to reverse list
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 * contrib: add pull_logger extension
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 * revset: handle wdir() in `roots()`
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 * revset: handle wdir() in `sort(..., -topo)`
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 * rhg: support tweakdefaults
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 * rhg: parallellize computation of [unsure_is_modified]
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== Default Format Change ==
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These changes affect newly created repositories (or new clones) done with
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Mercurial 6.3.
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== New Experimental Features ==
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== Bug Fixes ==
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 * shelve: demonstrate that the state is different across platforms (issue6735)
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 * shelve: in test for trailing whitespace, strip commit (issue6735)
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 * shelve: remove strip and rely on prior state (issue6735)
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 * tests: fix http-bad-server expected errors for python 3.10 (issue6643)
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 * status: let `--no-copies` override `ui.statuscopies`
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 * releasenotes: use re.MULTILINE mode when checking admonitions
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 * rhg: fallback to slow path on invalid patterns in hgignore
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 * Fix a bunch of leftover str/bytes issues from Python 3 migration
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 * keepalive: ensure `close_all()` actually closes all cached connections
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 * lfs: fix blob corruption when tranferring with workers on posix
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 * lfs: avoid closing connections when the worker doesn't fork
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 * dirstate-v2: update constant that wasn't kept in sync
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 * dirstate-v2: fix edge case where entries aren't sorted
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 * upgrade: no longer keep all revlogs in memory at any point
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 * rust-status: save new dircache even if just invalidated
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 * dirstate-v2: hash the source of the ignore patterns as well
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 * rhg: fallback when encountering ellipsis revisions
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 * shelve: handle empty parents and nodestoremove in shelvedstate (issue6748)
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 * profile: prevent a crash when line number is unknown
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 * tags-fnode-cache: do not repeatedly open the filelog in a loop
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 * tags-fnode-cache: skip building a changectx in getfnode
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 * rust: create wrapper struct to reduce `regex` contention issues
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== Backwards Compatibility Changes ==
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 * chg worker processes will now correctly load per-repository configuration
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   when given a both a relative `--repository` path and an alternate working
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   directory via `--cwd`. A side-effect of this change is that these workers
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   will now return an error if hg cannot find the current working directory,
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   even when a different directory is specified via `--cwd`.
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 * phase: rename the requirement for internal-phase from `internal-phase` to `use-internal-phase` (see 74fb1842f8b962cf03d7cd5b841dbcf2ae065587)
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== Internal API Changes ==
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== Miscellaneous ==
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 * sslutil: use proper attribute to select python 3.7+
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 * typing: suppress a few pyi-errors with more recent pytype
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 * ci: bump pytype to 2022.03.29
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 * bundlespec: add documentation about existing option
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 * subrepo: avoid opening console window for non-native subrepos on Windows
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 * setup: unconditionally enable the `long-paths-support` option on Windows
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 * setup: use the full executable manifest from `python.exe`
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