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For both evolve and topic. The topic introduction is updated too.

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Mutable History For Mercurial
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Evolve Extension
=================

This package supplies the ``evolve`` extension for Mercurial,

**The full implementation of the changeset evolution concept is still in
progress.**  Please subscribe to the `evolve-testers mailing list <https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/evolve-testers>`_ to stay up to date with changes.

This extensions:

 * enables the "changeset obsolescence" feature of Mercurial core

 * provides a set of commands to mutate your history,

 * issues several warning messages when troubles from some mutable appears in
   your repository,

 * provides a ``hg evolve`` command to deal with such "troubles".
   issues.

Install
-------

You can install the latest evolution version usin pip::

    $ pip install --user hg-evolve

Then just enable it in you hgrc::

    $ hg config --edit # adds the two line below:
    [extensions]
    evolve =

We recommend reading the documentation first. An online version is
available here:

    https://www.mercurial-scm.org/doc/evolution/

Local Install
-------------

To install a local version from source::

    $ hg clone https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/evolve/
    $ cd evolve
    $ make install-home

Then just enable it in you hgrc::

    $ hg config --edit # adds the two line below:
    [extensions]
    evolve =

Documentation lives in ``doc/``.

Topic Extension
================

This packages also provides the ``topic`` extensions. It implements a new
experimental concept to provide lightweight feature branches for the mutable
parts of the history. The experiments is still at an early stage and have
significant usability and performance issues.

enable topic
------------

The topic extensions is included in the evolve package. See the install instruction for evolve.

Then enable it in you configuration::

    $ hg config --edit # adds the two line below:
    [extensions]
    topics =

help
----

 * See 'hg help -e topic' for a generic help.
 * See 'hg help topics' and 'hg help stack' for help on specific commands.
 * See the 'tests/test-topic-tutorial.t' file for a quick tutorial.

Contribute
==========

Bugs are to be reported on the mercurial's bug tracker (component: evolution):
https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/buglist.cgi?component=evolution&query_format=advanced&resolution=---

Please use the patchbomb extension to send email to mercurial devel. Please
make sure to use the evolve-ext flag when doing so. You can use a command like
this:

    hg email --to [e-mail] --flag evolve-ext --rev '<your patches>'

See also
https://mercurial-scm.org/wiki/ContributingChanges#Patch_descriptions
for guidelines on the patch description.

Please don't forget to update and run the tests when you fix a bug or
add a feature. To run the tests, you need a working copy of Mercurial,
say in $HGSRC:

    cd tests
    python $HGSRC/tests/run-tests.py

(evolve's stable and default branches correspond to Mercurial's stable
and default branches. So to test evolve from default, you need
Mercurial on default.)


Changelog
=========

6.0.0 --

  - drop compatibility for Mercurial < 3.8,
  - removed old (unpackaged) pushexperiment extension,
  - move all extensions in the official 'hgext3rd' namespace package,
  - add the "topic" experimental extensions.
  - officially ship 'evolve.serveronly' extensions. That extensions contains
    only the part related to exchange and is intended to be used by server.

    Using the extension will enable evolution, use 'experimental.evolution=!'
    to disable obsmarkers echange.  The old '__temporary__.advertiseobsolete'
    option is no longer supported.

5.6.1 -- 2017-02-28

 - fix a crash that sometime happened when evolving merges.

5.6.0 -- 2017-02-01

 - compatibility with Mercurial 4.1.
 - improvement of prune error message.
 - fold: require --from flag for folding revisions to working copy
 - fix crash when trying to fold an empty revision set (issue5453)
 - uncommit: preserve copy information of remaining files (issue5403)

5.5.0 -- 2016-10-30

 - The {obsolete} template now yield "obsolete" or "".
 - compatibility with Mercurial 4.0
 - Fix erroneous manifest computation when solving 'bumped' changeset.
 - split: avoid crash on empty commit (issue5191),
 - next: improve locking to avoid issue with working copy parent (issue5244)
 - prev: improve locking to avoid issue with working copy parent (issue5244)
 - evolve: fix abort suggestion to include '.' in 'hg update -C .'

5.4.1 -- 2016-08-01

 - compat with Mercurial 3.9

5.4.0 -- 2016-05-06

- Some collaboration with the topic experimental extensions,
  - hg evolve --all with consider all troubles in your current topic,
  - preserve 'topic' during evolve,
  - 'next' and 'prev' restrict themself to the current topic by default,
- remove the dangerous 'kill' alias for 'prune' (because 'hg kill -1' without
  the leading 'hg' will give you an hardtime)
- during 'hg evolve' skip unsupported merge instead of aborting
- various documentation fix and update
- hg summary now suggest 'hg evolve --continue when appropriate`
- compatibility with Mercurial 3.8 'hgext' namespace package.
- small improvement to the `hg split` instruction
- add a 'metaedit' command to rewrite changeset meta data.

5.3.0 -- 2016-02-11

- split: add a new command to split changesets,
- tests: drop our copy of 'run-tests.py' use core one instead,
- bookmark: do all bookmark movement within a transaction.
- evolve: compatibility with Mercurial 3.7
- evolve: support merge with a single obsolete parent (hg-3.7+ only)
- evolve: prevent added file to be marked as unknown if evolve fails (issue4966)
- evolve: stop relying on graftstate file for save evolve state
          (for `hg evolve --continue`)
- evolve: fix divergence resolution when it result in an empty commit
          (issue4950) (hg-3.5+ only)
- no longer lock the repository for `hg parents` (issue4895)
- updated help for the `evolve` command

5.2.1 -- 2015-11-02

- add compatibility with Mercurial 3.6
- prune: fixed possible issue with lock and bookmark
- next/prev: fixed possible issue with lock and bookmark
- add some progress data during changesets discovery
- take advantage of dirstate/transaction collaboration

5.2.0 -- 2015-06-25

- evolve: gain a --rev option to control what revisions to evolve (issue4391)
- evolve: revision are processed in the order they stack on destination
- evolve: properly skip unstable revision with non-evolved unstable parent
- evolve: gain --unstable --divergent --bumped flag to select the trouble
- evolve: issue more useful error message and hint when evolve has nothing to
          do as invocated.
- evolve: bare `hg evolve` commands now abort when multiple changesets could be
          a target.
- evolve: `hg evolve --all` only evolve changeset that will end up as
          descendant of the current working copy. The old behavior of `--all`
          in now in `--all --any`.
- evolve: add a 'experimental.evolutioncommands' for fine grained commands
          enabling
- next/prev: requires `--merge` to move with uncommitted changes
- next: significantly reword error messages
- next: add a --evolve flag to evolve aspiring children when on a head

5.1.5 -- 2015-06-23

- minor documentation cleanup
- support -i option for `hg amend` if commit supports it (3.4)
- fix the `debugrecordpruneparents` utility
- fix some possible crash during command abort (release nonexistent transaction)
- fix simple4server bug tracker URL
- compatibility with bookmark API change in future Mercurial 3.5
- prune no longer move the active bookmark for no reason (issue4559)
- evolve: stop reporting divergence base as missing when we actually have it
- significant performance improvement for all revsets.
- provide a hint of how to update to the successor of an obsolete working copy
  parent.

5.1.4 -- 2015-04-23

- significant documentation update
- fix issue4616: pulling with bundle2 would crash if common marker when
  discovered on non-served changesets.
- fix the debugobsrelsethashtree command

5.1.3 -- 2015-04-20

- discovery: fix misbehaving discovery across python version
- pull: properly install the bundle2 par generator
  (avoid sending all markers for each pull)
- commit: avoid potential deadlock (acquires wlock before lock)
- graft: avoid potential deadlock (acquires wlock before lock)

5.1.2 -- 2015-04-01

- evolve: prevent a crash in httpclient_pushobsmarkers() when pushing

5.1.1 -- 2015-03-05

- debugobsconvert: fix invalid markers during conversion
- discovery: cache some of the obs hash computation to improve performance (issue4518)
- revset: fix some crash with (issue4515)

5.1 -- 2015-01-30

- evolve: explicitly disable bookmark on evolve (issue4432)
- evolve: don't abort Mercurial on version mismatch
- compatibility with mercurial 3.3

5.0.2 -- 2014-12-14

- evolve: remove dependency to the rebase extension

5.0.1 -- 2014-11-25

- amend: fix --logfile argument
- evolve: preserve branch change when evolving
- evolve: fix potential crash while solving `bumped` changesets.
- uncommit: abort when rev specifies the current changeset
- evolve: various message improvement
- evolve: fix selection of changeset to evolve from the middle of a stack (issue4434)
- evolve: make next/prev only move bookmarks optionally
- evolve: tell user which "base of divergent changeset" is not found



5.0.0 -- 2014-10-22

- drop compat with Mercurial pre 3.2
- uncommit: add a --rev argument
- evolve: add a `working directory now at xxxxxxxxxx` message
- evolve: automatically translate obsolete hashes when evolving
- properly skip marker creating if patch apply cleanly
- prune: work around a massive slowdown from lazy revset
- grab: "fix" the grab alias on window

- fix an issue where prune performance were quadratic with the number of
  changesets pruned.
- pull: use discovery to pull less obsmarkers through bundle2


4.1.0 -- 2014-08-08

- amend: add -D/--current-date option
- amend: add -U/--current-user option
- evolve: add a --tool option
- evolve: add a --confirm option
- mark "commit -o", "graft -o" and "graft -O" as deprecated since they are
  unlikely to eventually make it into core.
- push obsmarkers and phases in the same transaction than changesets
  (when using hg >= 3.1 and bundle2-exp is enabled)
- hide message about the obsolescence marker exchange behind a
  `experimental.verbose-obsolescence-exchange` variable (default to False).

4.0.1 -- 2014-08-08

- createmarkers() accept an iterable (for compat with other extension)

4.0.0 -- 2014-06-03

- require Mercurial version 3.0.1 or above
- some compatibility fixes with future 3.1.0
- deprecated `gup` and `gdown` in favor of prev and next
- record parent of pruned parent at prune time
- added a `debugobsstorestat` command to gather data on obsmarker content.
- added a `debugrecordpruneparents` command to upgrade existing prune marker
  with parent information. Please run it once per repo after upgrading.
- improvement to obsolescence marker exchange:
  - added progress when pushing obsmarkers
  - added multiple output during obsolescence markers exchange
  - only push markers relevant to pushed subset
  - add a new experimental way to exchange marker (when server support):

    - added progress when pulling obsmarkers
    - only pull markers relevant to pulled subset
    - avoid exchanging common markers in some case
    - use bundle2 as transport when available.

 - add a hook related to the new commands

3.3.2 -- 2014-05-14

- fix a bug where evolve were creating changeset with 2 parents on windows
  (fix issues #16, #35 and #42)
- adds a --obsolete flag to import (requires Mercurial 3.0)
- prune: update to successor rather than parent when pruning '.' with -s
- fold: add missing --message and --logfile option
- fold: add squash as an alias

3.3.1 -- 2014-04-23

- various language fix
- active bookmark now move when using prev/next (#37)
- fix some preservation of rename information on evolve (#33)
- abort when evolve tries to move a node on top of itself (will helps on the #35 front)
- fold: enable --date and --user options

3.3.0 -- 2014-03-04

- raise Mercurial's minimal requirement to 2.7
- drop `latercomer` and `conflicting` compatibility. Those old alias are
  deprecated for a long time now.
- add verbose hint about how to handle corner case by hand.
  This should help people until evolve is able to to it itself.
- removed the qsync extension. The only user I knew about (logilab) is not
  using it anymore. It not compatible with coming Mercurial version 2.9.
- add progress indicator for long evolve command
- report troubles creation from `hg import`

3.2.0 -- 2013-11-15

- conform to the Mercurial custom of lowercase messages
- added a small extension to experiment with obsolescence marker push
- amend: drop the deprecated note option
- amend: use core mechanism for amend (fix multiple bugs)
- parents command: add "working directory parent is obsolete" message
- evolve command: allow updating to the successor if the parent is
  obsolete
- gdown and gup commands: add next and previous alias, respectively
- make grab aliases compatible with Mercurial 2.8
- Tested with 2.6, 2.7 and 2.8

3.1.0 -- 2013-02-11

- amend: drop deprecated --change option for amend
- alias: add a grab alias to be used instead of graft -O
- touch: add a --duplicate option to *not* obsolete the old version
- touch: fix touching multiple revision at the same time
- evolve: add a --all option
- prune: various minor improvements
- prune: add option to prune a specific bookmark
- prune: add -u and -d option to control metadata

3.0.0 -- 2013-02-02

- compatibility with 2.5

2.2.0 --

- make evolve smarter at picking next troubled to solved without --any

2.1.0 -- 2012-12-03

- qsync fixes
- have qfold ask for commit message

2.0.0 -- 2012-10-26

- compat with mercurial 2.4

1.1.0 -- 2012-10-26

- fix troubles creation reporting from rebase
- rename latecomer to bumped
- renamed conflicting to divergent
- smarter divergent handling

1.0.2 -- 2012-09-19

- fix hg fold bug
- fix hg pull --rebase
- fix detection of conflict with external tools
- adapt to core movement (caches and --amend)

1.0.1 -- 2012-08-31

- documentation improvement
- fix a performance bug with hgweb

1.0 -- 2012-08-29

- Align with Mercurial version 2.3 (drop 2.2 support).
- stabilize handle killed parent
- stabilize handle late comer
- stabilize handle conflicting
- stabilize get a --continue switch
- merge and update ignore extinct changeset in most case.
- new "troubled()" revset
- summary now reports troubles changesets
- new touch command
- new fold command
- new basic olog alias

- rebase refuse to work on public changeset again
- rebase explicitly state that there is nothing to rebase because everything is
  extinct() when that happen.
- amend now cleanly abort when --change switch is misused


0.7 -- 2012-08-06

- hook: work around insanely huge value in obsolete pushkey call
- pushkey: properly handle abort during obsolete markers push
- amend: wrap the whole process in a single transaction.
- evolve: tweak and add EOL to kill warning
- obsolete: fix doc, rebase no longer aborts with --keep
- obsolete/evolve: fix grammar in prerequisite messages
- evolve: avoid duplication in graft wrapper
- evolve: graft --continue is optional, test

0.6 -- 2012-07-31

- obsolete: change warning output to match mercurial core on
- qsync: ignore nonexistent nodes
- make compat server both compatible with "dump" and "dump%i" version

0.5 -- 2012-07-16

- obsolete: Detect conflicting changeset!
- obsolete: adapt to core: marker are written in transaction now
- evolve: add the solve alias to obsolete
- doc: big update of terms and summary of the concept
- evolve: switch the official name for "kill" to prune


0.4.1 -- 2012-07-10

- [convert] properly exclude null successors from conversion
- Ignore buggy marker in newerversion


0.4.0 -- 2012-07-06

- obsolete: public changeset are no longer latecomer.
- obsolete: move to official binary format
- adapt for new mercurial
- obsolete: we are not compatible with 2.1 any more

0.3.0 -- 2012-06-27

- obsolete:  Add "latecomer" error detection (stabilize does not handle resolution yet)
- evolve:    Introduce a new `uncommit` command to remove change from a changeset
- rebase:    allow the use of --keep again
- commit:    --amend option create obsolete marker (but still strip)
- obsolete:  fewer marker are created when collapsing revision.
- revset:    add, successors(), allsuccessors(), precursors(), allprecursors(),
             latecomer() and hidden()
- evolve:    add `prune` alias to `kill`.
- stabilize: clearly state that stabilize does not handle conflict
- template:  add an {obsolete} keyword

0.2.0 -- 2012-06-20

- stabilize: improve choice of the next changeset to stabilize
- stabilize: improve resolution of several corner case
- rebase:    handle removing empty changesets
- rebase:    handle --collapse
- evolve:   add `obsolete` alias to `kill`
- evolve:   add `evolve` alias to `stabilize`