New Evolve extension release: version 8.4.0

 Pierre-Yves David
2019-01-22

We pushed a new release for the evolve extension: 8.4.0

This extension extends core features around history rewriting and draft changesets sharing.

As usual, the release is available on pypi and upgrade is recommended.

This version drops support for Mercurial version 4.3 and bring a variety of improvements and bug fixes. Check the full changelog below for details. Thanks to all the people involved:

  • Anton Shestakov
  • Boris Feld
  • James Reynolds
  • Martijn Pieters
  • Martin von Zweigbergk
  • Matt Harbison
  • Pierre-Yves David
  • Pulkit Goyal
  • Sushil khanchi

Evolve: 8.4.0

compatibility

  • compat: add compatibility with Mercurial 4.9
  • compat: drop compatibility with Mercurial 4.3

Bug Fixes

  • evolve: avoid potential crash when stabilizing orphan merges
  • evolve: pick right destination in split+prune cases issue5686 (hg-4.9 only)
  • evolve: prioritize --rev/--any/--all option over obsolete working directory

behavior changes

  • fold: concatenate commit message in revision order
  • next: evolve aspiring children by default (use --no-evolve to skip)
  • next: pick lower part of a split as destination
  • push: have --publish overrule the auto-publish config
  • split: accept file patterns
  • split: improve and update the user prompt (BC)
  • split: make it possible to drop change during a split
  • split: no longer accept revision without --rev (BC)
  • split: support for non interactive splits

Topic 0.13.0

  • stack: introduce a --children flag (see help for details)
  • stack: support for '#stack[idx]' absolute indexing in revset (hg-4.9+ only)
  • topic: support for '#topic[idx]' relative indexing in revset (hg-4.9+ only)
  • topic: make --age compatible with the usual other display for hg topic
  • topics: improve the message around topic changes