Make contrib/buildrpm work on Fedora 9. mercurial.spec had bitrotted. These changes makes it possible to build an rpm that is usable. Only minimal changes has been made, and there is plenty of room for improvement.

help: Refine a bit the help text of "hg update" Parts of the original text were submitted by Hubert Kauker (Hubert dot Kauker at travelbasys.de). This is a slightly revised version of Hubert's original text.

add new test-hybridencode.py

statichttprepo: cleanups, use url.py (proxy, password support) - unify httprangereader.py and statichttprepo.py:rangegreader() - build the opener from url.py, that allows use to puse username and password in the url, to follow the proxy settings from hgrc, etc.

'\' should be escaped twice, for the shell, and for tr

merge with crew

use our urlopener (proxy handling, etc) instead of urllib

factor out the url handling from httprepo Create url.py to handle all the url handling: - proxy handling - workaround various python bugs - handle username/password embedded in the url

httprepo: factor out proxy handling

test-http-proxy: hide logged URL port number, works with--jobs

patch: rewrite diffstat with util.filter() Simpler and works under Windows.

test-mq-qimport: fix URL generation under windows