contrib/fuzz/dirstate_corpus.py

documentation: add some internals documentation about bid merge

This is an important algorithm that was only documented on the wiki so far.

Some update to the algorithm (and associated doc) is to expected in the future
since the bid merge algorithm is bug-ridden when it comes to file deletion comes
to play.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D8711

from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function

import argparse
import os
import zipfile

ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
ap.add_argument("out", metavar="some.zip", type=str, nargs=1)
args = ap.parse_args()

reporoot = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..', '..'))
dirstate = os.path.join(reporoot, '.hg', 'dirstate')

with zipfile.ZipFile(args.out[0], "w", zipfile.ZIP_STORED) as zf:
    if os.path.exists(dirstate):
        with open(dirstate, 'rb') as f:
            zf.writestr("dirstate", f.read())