UPDATE: mercurial 0.9

[deric@…]

Version 0.9 of the Mercurial SCM is now available at:

​http://selenic.com/mercurial/release/mercurial-0.9.tar.gz

More information available at:

​http://selenic.com/mercurial/

Many thanks to the numerous developers, testers, and users who contributed to this release. Enjoy!

Major changes between Mercurial 0.8.1 and 0.9:

• The repository file format has been improved.
  • This has resulted in an average 40% reduction in disk space usage.
  • The new format (called RevlogNG) is now the default.
  • Mercurial works perfectly with both the old and new repository file formats. It can transfer changes transparently between repositories of either format.
  • To use the new repository format, simply use hg clone --pull to clone an existing repository.
  • Note: Versions 0.8.1 and earlier of Mercurial cannot read RevlogNG repositories directly, but they can clone, pull from, and push to servers that are serving RevlogNG repositories.
• Memory usage has been improved by over 50% for many common operations.
• Substantial performance improvements on large repositories.
• New commands:
  • 'archive' - generate a directory tree snapshot, tarball, or zip file of a revision
• Deprecated commands:
  • 'addremove' - replaced by 'add' and 'remove --after'
  • 'forget' - replaced by 'revert'
  • 'undo' - replaced by 'rollback'
• New extensions:
  • Bugzilla integration hook
  • Email notification hook
• Nested repositories are now supported. Mercurial will not recurse into a subdirectory that contains a '.hg' directory. It is treated as a separate repository.
• The standalone web server, 'hg serve', is now threaded, so it can talk to multiple clients at a time.
• The web server can now display a "message of the day".
• Support added for hooks written in Python.
• Many improvements and clarifications to built-in help.

[deric@…]

Portfile patch for mercurial 0.8.1 -> 0.9

[mww@…]

thanks, commited;