relnotes/6.4

windows: work around argument size limitation in test-bookmarks-pushpull.t

Apparently, we need to got through MSYS for such a long argument to be accepted.

= Mercurial 6.4.5 =

 * re2: fix reporting of availability in `hg debuginstall`
 * ui: fix crash in `hg paths` when pulled-delta-reuse-policy is in use
 * path: display proper user facing value for pulled-delta-reuse-policy

= Mercurial 6.4.4 =

 * clonebundles: filter out invalid schemes instead of failing on them
 * doc: format argument for date uses strftime format string (issue6818)
 * test: make test-contrib-perf.t more robust
 * revlog: fix a bug in revlog splitting
 * bundles: clarify streaming v2 bundle usage
 * delta-find: fix pulled-delta-reuse-policy=forced behavior
 * dirstate: fall back to v1 if reading v2 failed
 * revlog: avoid possible collision between directory and temporary index

= Mercurial 6.4.3 =

 * chg: declare environ (issue6812)
 * chg: set CHGHG before connecting to command server
 * delta-find: never do anything fancy when general delta is off
 * delta-find: add a simple safeguard to prevent bad non-general-delta
 * debug-delta: add minimal documentation for `devel.bundle-delta` option
 * fix: highlight the required configuration and behavior of the fixer tools
 * rhg: don't print copy source when --no-status is passed
 * rhg: correctly relativize copy source path
 * repo-upgrade: write new requirement before upgrading the dirstate
 * backup: fix issue when the backup end up in a different directory

= Mercurial 6.4.2 =

Exceptional bugfix release due to a corruption bug that happens when using
clonebundles on repositories with large files.

 * revlog-split: make sure the self._indexfile attribute is reset (issue6811)


= Mercurial 6.4.1 =

 * rhg: fix a bug in path encoding
 * rhg: don't crash on empty directory names in path_encode, just in case
 * commands: correct documentation of hg serve’s --ipv6 options
 * run-tests: remove obsolete coverage check and packaging import (issue6805)
 * chg: populate CHGHG if not set
 * match: sort patterns before compiling them into a regex
 * match: match explicit file using a set
 * rebase: do not cleanup the working copy when --dry-run is used (issue6802)
 * sslutil: set context security level for legacy tls testing (issue6760)


= Mercurial 6.4 =

== New Features ==

 * There is a new internal merge tool called `internal:union-other-first`.
   It works like `internal:union` but add other side on top of local.
 * Pullbundles are enabled by default
 * delta-find: add a way to control the number of bases tested at the same time
 * changelog-v2: add a configuration to disable rank computation
 * debug: add an option to display statistic about a bundling operation
 * debug: add an option to display statistic about a unbundling operation
 * delta-find: add a delta-reuse policy that blindly accepts incoming deltas
 * debug: add debug-revlog-stats command
 * dirstate: add narrow support to `verify`
 * verify: also check dirstate
 * commit: add --draft option to use draft phase
 * amend: add a --draft option to set phase to draft
 * debug: add a config to abort update early
 * rhg: implement checkexec to support weird filesystems
 * debugshell: allow commands to be specified as a CLI argument
 * rhg-files: add support for narrow when specifying a revision
 * rust-narrow: enable narrow support for plain `rhg files`

== Bug Fixes ==

Aside from the following (unordered) commits which made it through a manual filter, there are a bunch of typing improvements and fixes, removal of deprecated code and general code cleanup.

 * lfs: improve an exception message for blob corruption detected on transfer
 * revlog: use the user facing filename as the display_id for filelogs
 * rust-status: query fs traversal metadata lazily
 * shelve: add Shelf.changed_files for resolving changed files in a plugin
 * demandimport: ensure lazyloaderex sets loader attributes (issue6725)
 * typing: fix a syntax error in mercurial/cext/bdiff.pyi
 * cffi: fix a bytes vs str issue on macOS when listing directories
 * changelog-v2: fix the docket `struct`
 * schemes: fix a broken check for drive letter conflicts
 * worker: avoid reading 1 byte at a time from the OS pipe
 * rust-narrow: fix loop that never loops
 * setup: Ensure target directory exists with building rust extension
 * dirstate: invalidate changes when parent-change fails
 * dirstate: warn about non-explicitly rolledback parent-change
 * dirstate: write dirstate on successful exit of changing_parents context
 * largefile: make sure we hold the lock when updating the second dirstate
 * dirstate: enforce holding the lock while doing any changes
 * run-tests: stop ignoring venv-installed packages
 * transaction: run abort callback in all cases
 * transaction: quietly rollback if no other changes than temporary files
 * debugrebuilddirstate: double check that no transaction is open
 * dirstate: do not write an empty dirstate just for backup
 * locking: take the `wlock` for the full `hg add` duration
 * locking: take the `wlock` for the full `hg remove` duration
 * locking: take the `wlock` for the full `hg forget` duration
 * locking: take the `wlock` for the full `hg addremove` duration
 * locking: grab the wlock before touching the dirstate in `perfdirstatewrite`
 * locking: hold the wlock for the full duration of the "keyword demo"
 * mq: properly take the wlock during the full qfold operation
 * dirstate: invalidate the dirstate change on transaction failure
 * status: fix post status writing
 * status: fix post status invalidation
 * dirstate: avoid transaction backup/restore if we do not hold the lock
 * rollback: explicitly skip dirstate rollback when applicable
 * dirstate-guard: remove the feature
 * dirstate: make `restorebackup` more robust when it is a noop
 * dirstate: generalize the dirstate's invalidation on transaction abort
 * dirstate: detect potential fishy transaction patterns while changing
 * mq: write the dirstate before stripping
 * dirstate: explicitly backup the datafile
 * localrepo: enforce a clean dirstate when the transaction open
 * localrepo: "blindly" do a dirstate backup at the end of the transaction
 * dirstate: remove the dedicated backup logic
 * rhg: fix a bug in path_encode
 * dirstate: invalidate on all exceptions
 * large-files: make sure we write newly initialized standin file early
 * dirstate: warn if dirty when starting an edition
 * dirstate: track that changes are pending in a transaction
 * dirstate: distinct transaction callback from largefile
 * automv: lock the repository before searching for renames
 * dirstate: only reload the dirstate when it may have changed
 * dirstate: cleanup the `_map` property cache
 * status: invalidate dirstate  on LockError
 * dirstate: check that dirstate is clean at the initial context opening
 * dirstate: have `running_status` write the dirstate when holding the lock
 * dirstate: have `running_status` warn when exiting with a dirty dirstate
 * narrow: widden the lock context in `tracking`
 * narrow: enforce that narrow spec is written within a transaction
 * transaction: no longer explicitly cache phaseroots
 * transaction: no longer explicitly cache bookmarks
 * transaction: use the standard transaction mechanism to backup branch
 * bundlerepo: handle changegroup induced phase movement in the associated method
 * bundlerepo: apply phase data stored in the bundle instead of assuming `draft`
 * config-item: declare undeclared path suboption
 * narrow: read pending file when applicable
 * rust: fix building on macOS (issue6801)
 * run-tests: fix a crash when using the coverage options
 * undo-files: also remove the undo.backupfiles
 * undo-files: cleanup backup when cleaning undos
 * undo-files: clean existing files up before writing new one
 * undo-files: cleanup legacy files when applicable
 * dirstate-v2: fix an incorrect handling of readdir errors
 * rust: update zstd dependency
 * rust: upgrade `rayon` dependency
 * dirstate: fix the bug in [status] dealing with committed&ignored directories
 * dirstate: fix a potential traceback when in `copy` and `rename`
 * histedit: fix diff colors
 * cext: fix for PyLong refactoring in CPython 3.12
 * py3: fix for Python 3.12 emitting SyntaxWarning on invalid escape sequences
 * statprof: with Python 3.12, lineno is (more) often None
 * transaction: properly clean up backup file outside of .hg/store/
 * transaction: raise on backup restoration error
 * revlog: improve the robustness of the splitting process
 * debugdeltachain: stop summing the same chain over and over
 * url: don't ignore timeout for https connections
 * py3: fix for Python 3.12 emitting SyntaxWarning on invalid escape sequences
 * tests: accept a test output change in [tests/test-serve.t]
 * rust: fix thread cap (for real this time)
 * dirstate: try refreshing the changelog when parent are unknown
 * hooks: invalidate the repo after the hooks

== Backwards Compatibility Changes ==
 * rust: upgrade supported Rust toolchain version
 * rust: move all crates in the main workspace to edition 2021
 * hg-core: upgrade `zstd` dependency
 * hg-core: upgrade `clap` dependency
 * hg-core: upgrade all remaining dependencies
 * hg-cpython: upgrade dependencies
 * rhg: upgrade `clap` dependency
 * rhg: upgrade the remainder of the dependencies

== Internal API Changes ==

 * Many APIs around the dirstate have been made much stricter with regards to
   locking and transaction handling
 * Some dirstate APIs have been renamed/removed
 * In both cases, you should get loud complaints in your tests if you do
   something wrong.

== Miscellaneous ==

 * pullbundle support no longer requires setting a server-side option,
   providing a .hg/pullbundles.manifest according to the syntax specified in
   'hg help -e clonebundles' is enough.
 * debug-delta-find: add a --source option
 * delta-find: add debug information about reuse of cached data
 * delta-find: set the default candidate chunk size to 10
 * attr: vendor 22.1.0
 * configitems: add a default value for "merge-tools.xxx.regappend"
 * debugrevlog: display total stored information
 * emitrevision: if we need to compute a delta on the fly, try p1 or p2 first
 * emitrevision: consider ancestors revision to emit as available base
 * find-delta: pass the cache-delta usage policy alongside the cache-delta
 * delta-find: use a smarter object for snapshot caching
 * delta-find: use sets instead of list in the snapshot cache
 * delta-find: make sure we only use newer full snapshot as candidate
 * delta-find: use a single snapshot cache when applying a group to an object
 * bundleoperation: optionnaly record the `remote` that produced the bundle
 * bundle: when forcing acceptance of incoming delta also accept snapshot
 * bundle: emit full snapshot as is, without doing a redelta
 * pathutil: slightly faster path audit in the common case
 * merge: don't pay for pathconflicts if there are none
 * merge: short-circuit the _checkfs loop upon getting ENOENT
 * merge: disable the whole filesystem access loop if [_realfs] is false
 * merge: cache the fs checks made during [_checkunknownfiles]
 * rust: use `logging_timer` instead of `micro_timer`
 * rust: run `cargo clippy`
 * makefile: add `cargo clippy` to tests if cargo is available
 * heptapod-ci: add `clippy` to the CI
 * convert: use a priority queue for sorting commits, to make sorting faster
 * delta-find: adjust the default candidate group chunk size
 * delta-find: declare the "paths..*:pulled-delta-reuse-policy option