relnotes/5.2

repo-upgrade: write new requirement before upgrading the dirstate

This will prevent a small race condition where another hg process still
believes the repo is dirstate-v1 during the upgrade process.

This is good to have, but it is not a proper fix for the underlying problem.
There is code that assumes a requirement means a usage, e.g. having the
`generaldelta` requirement would imply *all* revlogs to use general delta,
but it's not true, it simply means that the repository advertises to the
client it needs to understand `generaldelta` in order to read the repo.

In the case of the dirstate, having the requirement *technically* should always
be the same as using dirstate-v2, since there is only one dirstate and
requirements should be as minimal as possible. However, we should not assume
this and make the code more robust in a future patch (series).

== New Features ==

 * The amend extension supports the `--currentuser` argument.

 * The amend extension supports the `--close-branch` argument.

 * The amend extension supports the `--secret` argument.

 * The uncommit extension supports the `rewrite.update-timestamp` config option.

== New Experimental Features ==


== Bug Fixes  ==


== Backwards Compatibility Changes ==

 * A shell that supports `$(command)`` syntax for command substitution is now
   required for running the test suite. The test runner normally uses
   `sh`, so if that is a shell that doesn't support `$(command)` syntax,
   you can override it by setting `$HGTEST_SHELL` or by passing it to
   `run-tests.py --shell <shell>`.

 * The (experimental) narrow extension's wire protocol changed. If
   you're using it, you'll need to make sure to upgrade server and
   client at the same time.

== Internal API Changes ==