Update to 3.5:

Mercurial 3.5 (2015-07-31)

Regularly-scheduled feature release.

1.1. commands

    bookmark: informs of failure to upgrade a bookmark
    bookmark: remove the "touch changelog" hack
    bookmarks: abort the whole push if bookmarks fails to update (BC)
    bookmarks: change bookmark within a transaction
    bookmarks: clear active bookmark on non-linear update
    bookmarks: mark internal-only config option
    bookmarks: mark internal-only option
    bookmarks: name label for active bookmark correctly
    bookmarks: remove unused updatecurrentbookmark function (API)
    bookmarks: rename bookmarkcurrent to activebookmark (API)
    bookmarks: rename current to active in variables and comments
    bookmarks: rename readcurrent to readactive (API)
    bookmarks: rename setcurrent to activate (API)
    bookmarks: rename unsetcurrent to deactivate (API)
    bookmarks: simplify iscurrent to isactivewdirparent (API)
    bookmarks: use try/except/finally
    branch: don't warn about branches if repository has multiple branches already
    commands: use the optional badfn argument when building a matcher
    commands: use try/except/finally
    commit: add ui.allowemptycommit config option
    commit: avoid match.files() in conditions
    commit: improve --close-branch documentation
    commit: mark internal-only option
    commit: no longer allow empty commit with the 'force' argument (API)
    config: give it an includepaths option for looking for config files
    files: recurse into subrepos automatically with an explicit path
    import-checker: add xargs like mode
    import-checker: don't treat modules as relative one if not found
    import-checker: exclude mercurial packages installed into the system path
    import-checker: loop to get list of locally defined modules at first
    import: cross-reference patch.fuzz option from 'hg help import'
    import: cross-reference ui.patch option from 'hg help import'
    import: use ui.allowemptycommit to allow empty commits
    log: add a status template
    patch: add 'extra' argument to makememctx
    patch: add fuzz config flag (issue4697)
    phases: abort the whole push if phases fail to update (BC)
    phases: fix bug where native phase computation wasn't called
    phases: really fix native phase computation
    pull: allow a generic way to pass parameters to the pull operation
    pull: document the race condition with bookmark name
    pull: only list remote bookmarks if -B is used to populate pulled heads
    pull: only prefetch bookmarks when using bundle1
    pull: prevent race condition in bookmark update when using -B (issue4689)
    pull: skip pulling remote bookmarks with bundle1 if a value already exist
    pull: skip pulling remote bookmarks with bundle2 if a value already exists
    push: catch and process PushkeyFailed error
    push: make pushkey part advisory
    push: only say we are trying to push obsmarkers when we actually try
    revert: fix edition of newly added file during --interactive
    summary: add a phase line (draft, secret) to the output
    summary: move the parents phase marker to commit line (issue4688)
    tags: support reading tags cache without populating
    tags: support setting hgtags fnodes cache entries
    tags: use try/except/finally
    verify: check the subrepository references in .hgsubstate
    verify: clarify misleading fncache message

1.2. core

    dirstate: ensure mv source is marked deleted when walking icasefs (issue4760)
    ignore: fix include: rules depending on current directory (issue4759)
    parsers: fix buffer overflow by invalid parent revision read from revlog
    revlog: add support for a callback whenever revisions are added
    revlog: raise an exception earlier if an entry is too large (issue4675)
    revset: fix a crash in parents() when 'wdir()' is in the set
    revset: fix iteration over ordered addset composed of non-ordered operands
    revset: gratuitous formating fix in keyword
    revset: improves time complexity of 'roots(xxx)'
    revset: port extra() to support keyword arguments
    revset: reduce nesting of chained 'or' operations (issue4624)
    revsetbenchmarks: fix argument parsing
    revsetbenchmarks: improve error output in case of failure
    revsetbenchmarks: improve revision printing
    revsetbenchmarks: support combining variants with "+"
    templater: do not reevaluate rawstring as template (BC)
    templater: remove noop calls of parsestring(s, quoted=False) (API)
    templater: rename parsestring() to unquotestring() (API)
    templater: take any string literals as template, but not for rawstring (BC)
    templater: tokenize decimal integer literal (issue4638) (BC)
    wireproto: correctly escape batched args and responses (issue4739)

1.3. extensions

    convert: add config option for disabling ancestor parent checks
    convert: add support for specifying multiple revs
    convert: allow customizing git remote prefix
    convert: apply the appropriate phases to the destination (issue4165)
    convert: fix bug with converting the same commit twice
    convert: handle copies when converting from Perforce (issue4744)
    convert: handle deleted files when converting from Perforce (issue4743)
    convert: handle deleted files when converting from Perforce (issue4743)
    convert: improve support for unusual .gitmodules
    convert: support incremental conversion with hg subrepos
    convert: support multiple specifed revs in git source
    convert: use 'default' for specifying branch name in branchmap (issue4753)
    convert: when converting from Perforce use original local encoding by default (BC)
    extdiff: allow modifications in subrepos to be copied back
    highlight: produce correct markup when there's a blank line just before EOF
    histedit: abort rather than edit a public changeset (issue4704)
    histedit: mark defaultrev option experimental
    largefiles: allow the archiving of largefiles to be disabled
    largefiles: avoid match.files() in conditions
    largefiles: ignore hidden changesets with 'verify --large --lfa'
    largefiles: pass in whole matcher to getstandinmatcher()
    largefiles: restore the original converter class after lfconvert --to-normal
    largefiles: use the convert extension for 'lfconvert --to-normal'
    largefiles: use the optional badfn argument when building a matcher
    largefiles: use try/except/finally
    mq: ban \r and \n in patch names (issue4711)
    mq: tweak config reading to make check-config happy
    mq: use the optional badfn argument when building a matcher
    mq: use ui.allowemptycommit to allow empty commits
    rebase: add short -k option for --keep
    rebase: remove extraneous blank at the end of file
    shelve: allow --patch and --stat without --list for a single shelf
    shelve: always backup shelves instead of deleting them
    shelve: keep old backups if timestamp can't decide exact order of them
    shelve: make maxbackup doc check-config friendly
    shelve: omit incorrect 'commit' suggestion at 'hg shelve -i'
    shelve: only keep the latest N shelve backups
    shelve: refactor allowables to specify sets of valid operations
    shelve: use try/except/finally
    transplant: restore dirstate correctly at unexpected failure

1.4. hgweb

    hgweb: don't dereference symbolic revision in paper & coal style (issue2296)
    paper: show branch/tags/bookmarks when blaming (issue3559)
    paper: show branch/tags/bookmarks when browsing (issue3559)
    paper: show branch/tags/bookmarks when comparing (issue3559)
    paper: show branch/tags/bookmarks when diffing (issue3559)
    paper: show branch/tags/bookmarks when viewing (issue3559)

1.5. unsorted

    archive: drop the leading '.' path component from the prefix (issue4634)
    archive: fix changesincelatesttag with wdir()
    archive: support 'wdir()'
    bufferedinputpipe: remove N^2 computation of buffer length (issue4735)
    bundle2: fix type of experimental option
    bundle2: pull bookmark the old way if no bundle2 listkeys support (issue4701)
    canonpath: fix infinite recursion
    censor: make various path forms available like other Mercurial commands
    censor: mark experimental option
    changegroup: compute seen files as changesets are added (issue4750)
    changelog: change input type of index_get_parents
    changelog: fix bug in heads computation
    changelog: move index_get_parents function up
    changelog: update read pending documentation
    check-commit: catch both patterns of double empty lines
    check-commit: print limit when user has a too-long summary
    check-config: add config option checker
    crecord: fix issue when backgrounding editor would leave artefact
    demandimport: alias builtin as builtins
    demandimport: define a 'deactivated' context manager
    demandimport: support importing builtins for Python 3
    devel: rename 'all' to 'all-warnings' (BC)
    dispatch: add support for python-flamegraph[0] profiling
    dispatch: disable demandimport for the --debugger option
    email: fix config default value inconsistency
    exchange: support transferring .hgtags fnodes mapping
    extdiff: add support for subrepos
    filemerge: mark internal-only config option
    formatter: add template support
    formatter: mark developer options
    generaldelta: mark experimental reordering option
    hg: support for auto sharing stores when cloning
    hgewb: disable progress when serving (issue4582)
    hghave: allow adding customized features at runtime
    http2: mark experimental and developer options
    localrepo: eliminate requirements class variable (API)
    localrepo: kill off sopener (API)
    localrepo: mark format options
    mail: pass ui to sslutil.wrapsocket() even if verifycert is off (issue4713)
    match: add an optional constructor parameter for a bad() override
    match: add optional warn argument
    match: introduce boolean prefix() method
    match: resolve filesets in subrepos for commands given the '-S' argument
    parser: factor out function that parses right-hand side of prefix/infix ops
    parser: fill invalid infix and suffix actions by None
    parser: reorder infix/suffix handling to be similar to prefix/primary flow
    parser: resolve ambiguity where both prefix and primary actions are defined
    parser: separate actions for primary expression and prefix operator
    parser: take suffix action if no infix action is defined
    pathutil: hint if a path is root relative instead of cwd relative (issue4663)
    phase: default to current revision if no rev is provided (issue4666)
    profiler: mark developer-only config option
    progress: deprecate the progress extension
    progress: mark experimental option
    progress: respect ui.quiet (issue4726)
    revrange: build balanced tree of addsets from revisions (issue4565)
    run-tests: introduce PYTHON3 boolean constant (issue4668)
    run-tests: move all open-coded sys.version_info checks to PYTHON3 (issue4668)
    run-tests: move unicode-to-bytes operations on paths to a helper (issue4667)
    run-tests: prefer PYTHON3 constant to many version_info checks (issue4668)
    run-tests: replace open-coded .decode()s on paths with a helper (issue4667)
    scmutil: add an optional parameter to matcher factories for a bad() override
    scmutil: use the optional badfn argument when building a matcher
    setup.py: drop compatibility with Python 2.4 and 2.5 (BC)
    setup: hide octal literals inside strings so they're portable (issue4554)
    sshpeer: break "OutOfBandError" feature for ssh (BC)
    sshpeer: run the ssh command unbuffered
    ssl: prompt passphrase of client key file via ui.getpass() (issue4648)
    subrepo: mark internal-only option
    templatekw: display active bookmark more consistently (issue4552) (BC)
    test-discovery: disable bundle2 for legacy test (issue4610)
    bookmarks: abort the whole push if bookmarks fails to update (BC)
    phases: abort the whole push if phases fail to update (BC)
    templater: do not reevaluate rawstring as template (BC)
    templater: take any string literals as template, but not for rawstring (BC)
    templater: tokenize decimal integer literal (issue4638) (BC)
    bookmarks: remove unused updatecurrentbookmark function (API)
    bookmarks: rename bookmarkcurrent to activebookmark (API)
    bookmarks: rename readcurrent to readactive (API)
    bookmarks: rename setcurrent to activate (API)
    bookmarks: rename unsetcurrent to deactivate (API)
    bookmarks: simplify iscurrent to isactivewdirparent (API)
    commit: no longer allow empty commit with the 'force' argument (API)
    templater: remove noop calls of parsestring(s, quoted=False) (API)
    templater: rename parsestring() to unquotestring() (API)


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