Download Mercurial 1.8.1

Mercurial is a program for software and project developers, among others, with which management and version control over data and source code can be performed. The program can be seen as a direct competitor to the well-known svn or subversion. Mercurial, for example, has recently been used by the development team behind Python, as in this maillist posting can be read. Mercurial 1.8.1 has recently been released with the following list of changes:

Mercurial 1.8.1:

This release backs out a behavior change for so-called ‘fast-forward’ merges on named branches.

• annotate: rewrite to deal with crossed linkrevs (issue2682)
• bookmark: fix invalidation of localrepo._bookmarkcurrent
• cacert: improve error report when web.cacert file does not exist
• contrib: update tcsh_completion for Mercurial 1.8
• hgcia: accept “queued.” xmlrpc return as success
• hgweb: fix filelog rss links generation
• hgweb: use tip in gitweb/monoblue filelog rss links (issue2677)
• merge: back out single-parent fast-forward merge
• merge: drop resolve state for mergers with identical contents (issue2680)
• merge: improve unresolved conflicts warning (issue2681)
• mergetools: add alternate registry keys for 32bit apps on 64bit O/S
• mq: forbid commit or merge involving mq patches
• subrepo: backout 67fbe566eff1, –force requires svn >= 1.5
• subrepo: don’t crash when git repo is missing
• subrepo: handle svn tracked/unknown directory collisions
• wix: drop bin/ folder from MSI installers (issue2673)