I'd also like to add:
* Accept patches to fetch multiple objects by HTTP in parallel.
Indeed. As a humble user of git for our inhouse development, I can
vouch that HTTP pulling on unpacked repositories (i.e. all of them, it
seems) is appalling. Ship a 1.0 without addressing this, then I imagine
the Mercurial devs will haemorrage with their Pythonesque mocking. ;p
Martin