--- a/mercurial/help/config.txt	Fri Jan 27 12:25:02 2012 +0400
+++ b/mercurial/help/config.txt	Fri Jan 27 18:43:31 2012 -0600
@@ -915,6 +915,21 @@
     Optional. Directory or URL to use when pushing if no destination
     is specified.
 
+``phases``
+""""""""""
+
+Specifies default handling of phases. See :hg:'help phases' for more
+information about working with phases.
+
+``publish``
+    Controls draft phase behavior when working as a server. When true,
+    pushed changesets are set to public in both client and server and
+    pulled or cloned changesets are set to public in the client.
+    Default: True
+
+``new-commit``
+    Phase of newly-created commits.
+    Default: draft
 
 ``profiling``
 """""""""""""

--- a/mercurial/help/phases.txt	Fri Jan 27 12:25:02 2012 +0400
+++ b/mercurial/help/phases.txt	Fri Jan 27 18:43:31 2012 -0600
@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@
 repository to disable publishing in its configuration file::
 
   [phases]
-  publishing = False
-  
+  publish = False
+
 See :hg:`help config` for more information on config files.
 
 .. note::

--- a/mercurial/merge.py	Fri Jan 27 12:25:02 2012 +0400
+++ b/mercurial/merge.py	Fri Jan 27 18:43:31 2012 -0600
@@ -173,6 +173,10 @@
         if m and m != a: # changed from a to m
             return m
         if n and n != a: # changed from a to n
+            if n == 'l' or a == 'l':
+                # can't automatically merge symlink flag change here, let
+                # filemerge take care of it
+                return m
             return n
         return '' # flag was cleared
 
@@ -359,7 +363,6 @@
                     updated += 1
                 else:
                     merged += 1
-            util.setflags(repo.wjoin(fd), 'l' in flags, 'x' in flags)
             if (move and repo.dirstate.normalize(fd) != f
                 and os.path.lexists(repo.wjoin(f))):
                 repo.ui.debug("removing %s\n" % f)