Mercurial 1.4.1 Released

I just noticed that Mercurial 1.4.1 was released today. Most of the changes are pretty minor, but I wanted to voice my appreciation for a new extension that is included with this release: schemes.

This extension basically makes your life easier by shortening redundant URLs for you. For example, you can now use the following command to snag my simple Mercurial extensions repo from BitBucket:

hg clone bb://codekoala/hgext

Without hgext.schemes, that command would be something like one of the following commands:

hg clone http://bitbucket.org/codekoala/hgext
hg clone ssh://hg@bitbucket.org/codekoala/hgext

Not the most ground-breaking of extensions, but still pretty slick!