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](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hg- evolve/8.4.0) 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