Mercurial 4.7 release

1. New Features

• 'hg graft' now has a '--stop' flag to stop interrupted graft.
• 'hg graft' now has an '--abort' flag which aborts the interrupted graft and rollbacks to state before the graft.
• The 'acl' extension now has support for bookmarks as well as branches.
• 'word-diff' option is now officially supported, and enabled by tweakdefaults.

2. Backwards Compatibility Changes

• The fileset expression may include untracked files by default. Use
  • "tracked()" to explicitly filter out files not existing at the context revision.

• graft: reuse --user, --date, a --log values in 'hg graft --continue' (BC)
• revset: fix heads() order to always follow the input set (BC)
• revset: make id() an empty set for ambiguous nodeid (BC)
• revset: use resolvehexnodeidprefix() in id() predicate (BC)
• status: add default of --terse=u to tweakdefaults (BC)
• templater: always join() over a wrapped object (BC)
• templater: consistently join() string-like object per character (BC)

3. Bug Fixes

• merge: mark file gets as not thread safe (issue5933)

• sparse-revlog: implement algorithm to write sparse delta chains (issue5480)

• obsolete: store user name and note in UTF-8 (issue5754) (BC)

• phases: remove excessive optimization from newheads() (issue5939)

• histedit: add --no-backup option (issue5825)

• unlinkpath: make empty directory removal optional (issue5901) (issue5826)

• graft: add no-commit mode (issue5631)

• revlog: suggest other parent when a parent was refused for a delta (issue5481)

• templatefuncs: show hint if extdata source is evaluated to empty (issue5843)

• bookmarks: cache reverse mapping (issue5868)

• hgweb: strip trailing '/' in apppath before appending '/static/' (issue5943)

4. New experimental features

5. Other notable features

6. API Changes

• repo[x] is now more strict about its input, see https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/file/4.6/mercurial/context.py#l380

• "sshserver()" no longer sets stdin and stdout to binary mode.
• New context manager "ui.uninterruptable()" to mark portions of a command as
  • potentially unsafe places to interrupt Mercurial with Control-C or similar.

• New ui.makeprogress() that makes it easier to update progress.
• changegroup: use progress helper in apply() (API)
• cmdutil: drop deprecated log helper methods (API)
• cmdutil: drop deprecated precursor of registrar.command (API)
• cmdutil: remove deprecated _revertprefetch code (API)
• context: drop support for looking up context by ambiguous changeid (API)
• context: explicitly take diffopts in 'context.diff' (API)
• context: make workingctx.matches() filter our removed files (API)
• demandimport: make module ignores a set (API)
• fileset: remove callexisting flag and mctx.existing() (API)
• fileset: restrict getfileset() to not return a computed set (API)
• merge: drop support for using updateresults as tuples (API)
• obsolete: explode if metadata contains invalid UTF-8 sequence (API)
• pycompat: export queue module instead of symbols in module (API)
• revlog: do inclusive descendant testing (API)
• revlog: replace descendant(b, a) by isdescendantrev(a, b) (API)
• scmutil: move repair.stripbmrevset as scmutil.bookmarkrevs (API)
• scmutil: remove deprecated revpairnodes method (API)
• shortest: don't keep checking for longer prefix if node doesn't exist (API)
• templatekw: drop deprecated showlist() and showdict() (API)
• templater: drop extension point of engine classes (API)
• update: use context manager for config override (API)
• util: drop deprecated forwarding to dateutil (API)
• util: drop deprecated forwarding to procutil (API)
• util: drop deprecated forwarding to stringutil (API)
• util: drop remainder of dateutil/procutil aliases (API)

6.1. commands

• annotate: automatically populate fields referenced from template
• bookmarks: add support for log-like template keywords and functions

• bookmarks: cache reverse mapping (issue5868)

• files: add support for log-like template keywords and functions
• files: automatically populate fields referenced from template

• graft: add no-commit mode (issue5631)

• graft: reuse --user, --log, and --date values in 'hg graft --continue' (BC)
• patch: don't separate \r and \n when colorizing diff output
• status: add a config knob for setting default of --terse
• status: add default of --terse=u to tweakdefaults (BC)
• status: add support for log-like template keywords and functions
• tags: unblock log-like template keywords and functions

6.2. core

• cmdutil: drop deprecated log helper methods (API)
• cmdutil: drop deprecated precursor of registrar.command (API)
• cmdutil: remove deprecated _revertprefetch code (API)
• context: also accept diff option directly
• context: drop support for looking up context by ambiguous changeid (API)
• context: explicitly take diffopts in 'context.diff' (API)
• context: make workingctx.matches() filter our removed files (API)
• context: no longer accept diff options as dictionnary

• filelog: don't crash on invalid copy metadata (issue5748)

• hook: add support for disabling the shell to native command translation
• hook: disable the shell to native command translation by default
• revlog: _segmentspan computes the byte span of a segment
• revlog: add function to slice chunk down to a given size
• revlog: delete isdescendantrev() in favor of isancestorrev()
• revlog: disallow setting uncompressed length to None
• revlog: do inclusive descendant testing (API)
• revlog: don't say "not found" on internal error
• revlog: early return in _slicechunk when density is already good
• revlog: early return in _slicechunk when span is already small enough
• revlog: efficient implementation of 'descendant'
• revlog: enforce chunk slicing down to a certain size
• revlog: handle error from node lookup
• revlog: handle errors from index_node() in nt_insert() and index_slice_del()
• revlog: introduce a isancestorrev() and use it in rebase
• revlog: introduce a tiny mock of a revlog class
• revlog: isgooddeltainfo takes the whole revinfo object
• revlog: make chainbase cache its result for the correct revision
• revlog: make getcandidaterevs more consistent about updating tested revs set

• revlog: make isdescendantrev(a, b) check if a < b

• revlog: make variable name 'd' more explicit in _isgooddeltainfo
• revlog: postprocess chunk to slice them down to a certain size
• revlog: replace descendant(b, a) by isdescendantrev(a, b) (API)
• revlog: reuse 'descendant' implemention in 'isancestor'
• revlog: use node tree (native code) for shortest() calculation
• revlog: use radix tree also for matching keys shorter than 4 hex digits
• revset: add partial support for ancestor(wdir())
• revset: fix heads() order to always follow the input set (BC)
• revset: make id() an empty set for ambiguous nodeid (BC)

• revset: pass in lookup function to matchany() (issue5879)

• revset: use resolvehexnodeidprefix() in id() predicate (BC)
• templater: always join() over a wrapped object (BC)
• templater: consistently join() string-like object per character (BC)
• templater: drop extension point of engine classes (API)
• templater: introduce a wrapper for date tuple (BC)
• templater: make date wrapper support dot/map operations
• transaction-summary: show phase changes statistics in pull/unbundle
• util: drop deprecated forwarding to dateutil (API)
• util: drop deprecated forwarding to procutil (API)
• util: drop deprecated forwarding to stringutil (API)
• util: drop remainder of dateutil/procutil aliases (API)

6.3. extensions

• convert: don't pass --no-files to "darcs show repo" command

• histedit: add --no-backup option (issue5825)

• histedit: add history-editing-backup config option
• histedit: improve help text for --no-backup option
• largefiles: use progress helper
• rebase: add --confirm option
• rebase: add a stateobj variable to rebaseruntime class
• rebase: add dry-run functionality
• rebase: avoid converting from nodes to revnums twice
• rebase: isolate command options from internal flags
• rebase: make dry-run return 1 or 0 according to result
• rebase: make sure we don't loose the return code in --confirm option
• rebase: suppress warning thrown when aborting rebase in case of dryrun
• rebase: use progress helper
• shelve: improve help text for --patch and --stat
• shelve: pick the most recent shelve if none specified for --patch/--stat
• shelve: use more accurate description in conflict marker

6.4. hgweb

• hgweb: propagate http headers from ErrorResponse for web interface commands

6.5. unsorted

• aggressivemergedeltas: enabled the option by default
• dispatch: fix exit code of unhandled exception recorded in blackbox log
• dispatch: mask negative exit code recorded in blackbox log
• dispatch: unify handling of None returned by a command function
• export: add -B option to select a bookmark
• filemerge: support specifying a python function to custom merge-tools
• fuzzutil: make it possible to use absl when C++17 isn't supported
• grep: change default behaviour to search working directory files (BC)
• grep: deprecates '--all' flag
• mpatch: introduce a safeadd() helper to work around UB int overflow
• mpatch: introduce a safesub() helper as well
• obsolete: explode if metadata contains invalid UTF-8 sequence (API)

• obsolete: store user name and note in UTF-8 (issue5754) (BC)

• perftemplating: stop going through the log command
• phase: clarify the message about movement on command changeset
• procutil: add a shim for translating shell commands to native commands
• pycompat: export queue module instead of symbols in module (API)
• remotenames: enable the storage config option if extension is enabled
• scmutil: move repair.stripbmrevset as scmutil.bookmarkrevs (API)
• scmutil: remove deprecated revpairnodes method (API)
• serve: add option print-url
• shortest: don't keep checking for longer prefix if node doesn't exist (API)
• sparse-revlog: new requirement enabled with format.sparse-revlog
• streamclone: update progress later to avoid passing None to util.bytecount
• strip: improve help text for --no-backup option
• template: directly instantiate diff options for diffstat
• templatefilters: deprecate hgdate as {date|hgdate} is the default format

• templatefuncs: show hint if extdata source is evaluated to empty (issue5843)

• templatekw: drop deprecated showlist() and showdict() (API)

• tests: add test demonstrating phase loss when cloning (issue5939)

• unlinkpath: make empty directory removal optional (issue5901) (issue5826)

• update: use context manager for config override (API)
• worker: support more return types in posix worker

• zstandard: pull in bug fixes from upstream 0.9.1 release (issue5884)