Makefile: intermediate steps work with temporary copy of hg.pot In case of abortion or a failing step, the target file remains untouched instead of being in an intermediate state.

merge with stable

help: drop help for branches template keyword The {branches} keyword dates to pre-1.0 Mercurial's tag-like branch scheme which allowed changesets to be on multiple branches. This is the last visible vestige of that scheme, users should instead be using {branch}, possibly with if().

test-command-template.t: fix failure due to trailing whitespace

templater: makes branches work correctly with stringify (issue4108)

manifest: increase lrucache from 3 to 4 During a commit amend there are 4 manifests being handled: - original commit - temporary commit - amended commit - merge base This causes a manifest cache miss which hurts perf on large repos. On a large repo, this fix causes amend to go from 6 seconds to 5.5 seconds.