December 21st, 2008 by Kevin Smith

Mercurial Release Notes
Version 1.1.1 – 2008-12-20
This is a bugfix release

* make hgweb recursion optional (use ‘**’ rather than ‘*’)
* fix fncache bug for directories ending in ‘ ‘ or ‘.’
* require -a switch to resolve all files
* improve help for resolve command
* fix inotify interaction with bundle diffs
* fix strange readline import error on Windows
* fix non-existing target directory with git diffs
* fix removing symlinks with git diffs
* fix directory creation bug in patch
* rebase: allow keeping branch names
* fix a copy bug in the SVN converter

December 20th, 2008 by Kevin Smith

I’ve been looking at e-readers and have it down to the upcoming Foxit eSlick and Sony PRS505. I simply ruled out Amazon.com’s Kindle due to the potential vendor lock on my reading material. Really what I want is a portable PDF viewer, other formats would be nice but not required. If I can just connect the device to the computer, have it recognized as a USB mass storage device, then copy my PDFs over that would be just swell. The readers at iRex look good also but expensive.

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December 3rd, 2008 by Kevin Smith

Mercurial (hg) releases version 1.1, which includes Python 2.6 compatibility, a new repository format, and the web interface now has a cool graph. More in the Release Notes.