hg-stable: Changelog

add: introduce a warning message for non-portable filenames (issue2756) (BC) On POSIX platforms, the 'add', 'addremove', 'copy' and 'rename' commands now warn if a file has a name that can't be checked out on Windows. Example: $ hg add con.xml warning: filename contains 'con', which is reserved on Windows: 'con.xml' $ hg status A con.xml The file is added despite the warning. The warning is ON by default. It can be suppressed by setting the config option 'portablefilenames' in section 'ui' to 'ignore' or 'false': $ hg --config ui.portablefilenames=ignore add con.xml $ hg sta A con.xml If ui.portablefilenames is set to 'abort', then the command is aborted: $ hg --config ui.portablefilenames=abort add con.xml abort: filename contains 'con', which is reserved on Windows: 'con.xml' On Windows, the ui.portablefilenames config setting is irrelevant and the command is always aborted if a problematic filename is found.

paper: use monospace font for description

update: fix check for no rev when a date is given The previous check caught a corner case in which rev was pointing to 0.

hgweb: detect change based on changelog size too Before, there was a race between an access and a modification made within the same second.

rollback: lower-case warning issued when branch cannot be reset Also improved the word order.

tests: remove redundant mkdir There are still many tests that check that a bare 'hg init' initializes the current directory.

help config: explain that config files do not exist by default Inspired by critique given on StackOverflow where a user writes: I can have a good guess at what "%USERPROFILE%" might signify but none of the files listed in the "hg help config" output exist after running the installer. Previous experience would suggest that missing files mean something somewhere has gone seriously wrong. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2329023/2351139#2351139

identify: restructure code to make it more readable

identify/help: say what the command does first, mention bookmarks

templatefilters: improve person() for john.doe@example.com BEFORE: person('john.doe@example.com') -> 'john' AFTER: person('john.doe@example.com') -> 'john doe'

help: do not show full help text for command on option errors Example $ hg clone --jump foo bar hg clone: option --jump not recognized hg clone [OPTION]... SOURCE [DEST] make a copy of an existing repository options: -U --noupdate the clone will include an empty working copy (only a repository) -u --updaterev REV revision, tag or branch to check out -r --rev REV [+] include the specified changeset -b --branch BRANCH [+] clone only the specified branch --pull use pull protocol to copy metadata --uncompressed use uncompressed transfer (fast over LAN) -e --ssh CMD specify ssh command to use --remotecmd CMD specify hg command to run on the remote side --insecure do not verify server certificate (ignoring web.cacerts config) [+] marked option can be specified multiple times use "hg help clone" to show the full help text Motivation for this change If the user already has specified the command, he probably already knows the command to some extent. Apparently, he has a problem with the options, so we show him just the synopsis with the short help and the details about the options, with a hint on the last line how to get the full help text. Why is Mercurial better with this change? Experts who just forgot about the details of an option don't get that much text thrown at them, while the newbies still get a hint on the last line how to get the full help text.