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Announcing a Windows installer for Mercurial

I am pleased to announce the availability of a standalone Windows version of Mercurial 0.7 (plus extra bits), packaged as a self-extracting installer. Benefits of this package: No prerequisites! You don’t need Python installed to use Mercurial any longer, because
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Mercurial: “proper” ssh support added

Until now, Mercurial only supported tunnelling over an ssh connection when pushing changes to a remote repository. Matt just committed some changes that lets all commands that talk to other repositories work over ssh tunnels.
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Mercurial: “locate” command added

I implemented a locate command that finds files in a repository by pattern. Here’s a simple example: $ hg locate ‘*.c’ mercurial/bdiff.c mercurial/mpatch.c
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Mercurial snapshot builds for Fedora Core

I have started doing regular automated builds of Mercurial, and packaging up the results for Fedora Core 2 and 3. These builds are performed four times a day, and the results are available here. Due to the vagaries of my
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Mercurial: RSS feeds added

Goffredo Baroncelli has contributed a patch to add RSS 2.0 support to Mercurial‘s HTTP serving capabilities. This means that you can subscribe to a Mercurial repository using the RSS feed reader of your choice, and be notified when someone publishes
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Mercurial: “revert” command added

I have implemented a revert command that lets you undo uncommitted modifications.
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Mercurial hacking

Since I started looking at Mercurial a few days ago, I’ve been hacking quite heavily on it. I’ll try to make some time to write about it here, but much of what I’ve been doing is documented on the Mercurial
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