[ANNOUNCE] git-cinnabar 0.4.0 beta 1

From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Jul 4, 2016, 10:48 UTC
Message-ID: <20160704104840.GA28672@glandium.org>

Git-cinnabar is a git remote helper to interact with mercurial repositories. It allows to clone, pull and push from/to mercurial remote repositories, using git.

Code on https://github.com/glandium/git-cinnabar This release on https://github.com/glandium/git-cinnabar/releases/tag/0.4.0b1

[ Previous announcements:
  http://marc.info/?l=git&m=146179749105388
  http://marc.info/?l=git&m=145294370431454
  http://marc.info/?l=git&m=145284823007354
  http://marc.info/?l=git&m=142837367709781 (...)]

What's new since 0.3.2?

- Various bug fixes.
- Updated git to 2.9 for cinnabar-helper.
- Now supports bundle2 for both fetch/clone and push
  (https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/BundleFormat2).
- Now Supports `git credential` for HTTP authentication.
- Removed upgrade path from repositories used with version < 0.3.0.
- Experimental (and partial) support for using git-cinnabar without
  having mercurial installed.
- Use a mercurial subprocess to access local mercurial repositories.
- Cinnabar-helper now handles fast-import, with workarounds for
  performance issues on macOS.

Mike