help: add :config-doc:`section.key` shorthand to insert documentation The config items defined in the configitems.toml file can already hold their documentation. Having some way to automatically insert it was a long standing low hanging fruit. So I did a first implementation on that. It fairly simple, but it open the door to more. It will be used in the next changeset.

bzr: attempt to stabilize the test The test has flakyness where the order of a few commit swap. This is an attempt at avoiding that.

branching: merge with stable

profiling: use "stat" profiler to profile individual request The ls profiler no longer works for that. As the lsprof profiler is not default and not great is general, lets side step the issue for now.

profiling: improve 3.12 error message for calling lsprof twice Python 3.12 prevent lsprof to be enabled if it is already enabled. This break the use of lsprof in `hg serve` as both the initial `serve` command and the request serving want to profile. The "stat" profiler (the default) does not have this problem, so we focus on improving the error message for now.

test: display server error log in test-profile.t This will help us to catch error with Python 3.12

archive: defer opening the output until a file is matched Before, if no file is matched, an error is thrown, but the archive is created anyway. When using hgweb, an error 500 is returned as the response body already exists when the error is seen. Afterwards, the archive is created before the first match is emitted. If no match is found, no archive is created. This is more consistent behavior as an empty archive is not a representable in all output formats, e.g. tar archives.

run-tests: add color to the progress output More color is useful to me.

python-compat: drop support for Python3.6 and 3.7 As discussed on the mailing list¹, these are old version that seems safe to drop. Python 3.8 comes with various improvement especially regarding typing capabilities. [1] https://lists.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2024-July/297998.html

ci: drop path manipulation that we do not need anymore The CI image has a squarer setup now.