0.5.0 beta 4

What's new since 0.5.0 beta 3?

• Fixed incompatibility with Mercurial 3.4.
• Performance and memory consumption improvements.
• Work around networking issues while downloading clone bundles from Mozilla CDN with range requests to continue past failure.
• Miscellaneous metadata format changes.
• The prebuilt helper for Linux now works across more distributions (as long as libcurl.so.4 is present, it should work)
• Updated git to 2.18.0 for the helper.
• Properly support the pack.packsizelimit setting.
• Experimental support for initial clone from a git repository containing git-cinnabar metadata.
• Changed the default make rule to only build the helper.
• Now can successfully clone the pypy and GNU octave mercurial repositories.
• More user-friendly errors.

0.5.0 beta 3

What's new since 0.5.0 beta 2?

• Fixed incompatibilities with Mercurial >= 4.4.
• Miscellaneous metadata format changes.
• Move more operations to the helper, hopefully making things faster.
• Updated git to 2.17.0 for the helper.
• Properly handle clones with bundles when the repository doesn't contain anything newer than the bundle.
• Fixed tag cache, which could lead to missing tags.

0.5.0 beta 2

What's new since 0.5.0 beta 1?

• Enabled support for clonebundles for faster clones when the server provides them.
• Git packs created by git-cinnabar are now smaller.
• Added a new git cinnabar upgrade command to handle metadata upgrade separately from fsck.
• Metadata upgrade is now significantly faster.
• git cinnabar fsck also faster.
• Both now also use significantly less memory.
• Updated git to 2.13.1 for git-cinnabar-helper.

0.5.0 beta 1

What's new since 0.4.0?

• git-cinnabar-helper is now mandatory. You can either download one with git cinnabar download on supported platforms or build one with make helper.
• Metadata changes require to run git cinnabar fsck.
• Mercurial tags are consolidated in a separate (fake) repository. See the README file.
• Updated git to 2.13.0 for git-cinnabar-helper.
• Improved memory consumption and performance.
• Improved experimental support for pushing merges.
• Experimental support for clonebundles.
• Removed support for the .git/hgrc file for mercurial specific configuration.
• Support any version of Git (was previously limited to 1.8.5 minimum)

0.4.0

What's new since 0.3.2?

• Various bug fixes.
• Updated git to 2.11.0 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.
• Now supports git push --dry-run.
• Added a new git cinnabar fetch command to fetch a specific revision that is not necessarily a head.
• Added a new git cinnabar download command to download a helper on platforms where one is available.
• 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.
• Fixed some corner cases involving empty files. This prevented cloning Mozilla's stylo incubator repository.
• Fixed some correctness issues in file parenting when pushing changesets pulled from one mercurial repository to another.
• Various improvements to the rules to build the helper.
• Experimental (and slow) support for pushing merges, with caveats. See issue #20 for details about the current status.
• Fail graft earlier when no commit was found to graft
• Allow graft to work with git version < 1.9
• Allow git cinnabar bundle to do the same grafting as git push

0.4.0 release candidate 2

What's new since 0.4.0rc?

• /!\ Warning /!\ If you have been using a version of the release branch between 0.4.0rc and 0.4.0rc2 (more precisely, in the range 0335aa1^..0.4.0rc2^), and used git cinnabar download and run on Mac or Windows, please run git cinnabar download again with this version and then ensure your mercurial clones have not been corrupted by case-sensitivity issues by running git cinnabar fsck --manifests. If they contain sha1 mismatches, please reclone.
• Updated git to 2.11.0 for cinnabar-helper
• Improvements to the git cinnabar download command
• Various small code cleanups
• Improvement to the experimental support for pushing merges.

0.4.0 release candidate

What's new since 0.4.0b3?

• Updated git to 2.10.2 for cinnabar-helper.
• Added a new git cinnabar download command to download a helper on platforms where one is available.
• Fixed some corner cases with pack windows in the helper. This prevented cloning mozilla-central with the helper.
• Fixed bundle2 support that broke cloning from a mercurial 4.0 server in some cases.
• Fixed some corner cases involving empty files. This prevented cloning Mozilla's stylo incubator repository.
• Fixed some correctness issues in file parenting when pushing changesets pulled from one mercurial repository to another.
• Various improvements to the rules to build the helper.
• Experimental (and slow) support for pushing merges, with caveats. See issue #20 for details about the current status.

0.4.0 beta 3

What's new since 0.4.0b2?

• Properly handle bundle2 errors, avoiding git to believe a push happened when
  it didn't. (0.3.x is unaffected)

0.4.0 beta 2

What's new since 0.4.0b1?

• Some more bug fixes.
• Updated git to 2.9.2 for cinnabar-helper.
• Now supports git push --dry-run.
• Added a new git cinnabar fetch command to fetch a specific revision that is not necessarily a head.
• Some improvements to the experimental native wire protocol support.

0.4.0 beta 1

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.