{"thread":{"id":"1020","subject":"Mercurial 0.6 released!","startedAt":"2005-06-24T21:24:07Z","lastAt":"2005-06-24T21:24:07Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Matt Mackall"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"5239","messageId":"20050624212407.GV27572@waste.org","threadId":"1020","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Mercurial 0.6 released!","fromName":"Matt Mackall","fromEmail":"mpm@selenic.com","sentAt":"2005-06-24T21:24:07Z","receivedAt":"2005-06-24T21:24:07Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"mpm@selenic.com","avatar":null},"body":"This is release 0.6 of Mercurial, the distributed SCM.\n\nMercurial is:\n - fast: as fast or faster than git or others for all important operations\n - easy to use: familiar commands, integrated help, integrated web server\n - space efficient: Linux kernel history back to 2.4.0 in 300MB\n - bandwidth efficient: 120MB to transfer that history\n - distributed: supports decentralized development with arbitrary merging\n - scalable: handles large numbers of files and revisions effortlessly\n - robust: append-only storage model with journalling and rollback\n - lightweight: small Python codebase\n\nAvailable at http://selenic.com/mercurial/\nLinux kernel repository at http://www.kernel.org/hg/\n\nThis release contains a huge number of improvements:\n\nimproved source tracking\n  multi-head support\n  permission tracking\n  rename and copy tracking\n  improved tag handling\nfriendlier, more robust command line interface\n  integrated help\n  faster startup\n  better exception handling\n  smarter three-way merge helper\nimproved communication\n  faster outstanding changeset detection\n  SSH-based push support\n  non-transparent proxy support\nimproved configuration handling\n  support for .hgrc and .hg/hgrc files\n  save per-repo defaults for pull\nnew delta extension\n  faster, smaller, and simpler than GNU diff or xdiff\n  faster commit, push/pull, and annotate\nimproved interoperability\n  convert-repo framework for importing from other SCMs \n  can work with gitk and git-viz\nportability improvements\n  tested on big and little-endian 32 and 64-bit UNIX platforms\n  Windows support is nearly complete\nand much more\n  numerous performance tweaks and bugfixes\n  automated test suite\n  updated docs and FAQ\n\n\n-- \nMathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.\n"}]}