add news about mercurial revision ids

Signed-off-by: Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin@zmanda.com>
djmitche · Apr 29, 2010 · c512b5b · c512b5b
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@@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ The web-based status displays now provide fine-grained control over who can
 do what - force builds, stop builds, cancel builds, etc.  See the manual for
 configuration details.
 
+** Mercurial uses full revisions
+
+Mercurial now sets got_revision to the full 40-character revision id instead of
+the short IDs.
+
 ** Cleanup, Bug Fixes, and Test Fixes
 
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