Mercurial > hg
changeset 1305:d4a555646460
Update Windows release notes.
| author | Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com> |
|---|---|
| date | Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:44:50 -0700 |
| parents | a69e5a67685c |
| children | c9fa33088bd1 |
| files | contrib/win32/postinstall.txt |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/contrib/win32/postinstall.txt Wed Sep 21 15:44:35 2005 -0700 +++ b/contrib/win32/postinstall.txt Wed Sep 21 15:44:50 2005 -0700 @@ -10,6 +10,29 @@ 2005-09-21 v0.7 with modifications -This is the first standalone release of Mercurial for Windows. I -believe it to be mostly functional, with one exception: there is no -support yet for DOS <-> Unix line ending conversion. +* New INI files have been added to control Mercurial's behaviour: + + System-wide - C:\Mercurial\Mercurial.ini + Per-user - C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Mercurial.ini + + A default version of the system-wide INI file is installed with + Mercurial. No per-user INI file is installed, but it will be + honoured if you create one. + +* Windows line endings are now handled automatically and correctly by + the update and commit commands. See the INI file for how to + customise this behaviour. + +* NOTE: Much of the rest of the Mercurial code does not handle Windows + line endings properly. Accordingly, the output of the diff command, + for example, will appear huge until I fix this. + +* Packaged text files now have correct Windows line endings. + + +2005-09-21 v0.7 with modifications + +* This is the first standalone release of Mercurial for Windows. + +* I believe it to be mostly functional, with one exception: there is + no support yet for DOS <-> Unix line ending conversion.