revlog: remove some knowledge of sentinel nullid in index
I think the "-2" to mean "last position in index, not counting the
null revision at the end" is an implementation detail of the index
that we should avoid spreading knowledge of. I hope we can even remove
support for index[-2].
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4016
#!/usr/bin/env python
from __future__ import absolute_import
__doc__ = """Same as `echo a >> b`, but ensures a changed mtime of b.
Without this svn will not detect workspace changes."""
import os
import stat
import sys
text = sys.argv[1]
fname = sys.argv[2]
f = open(fname, "ab")
try:
before = os.fstat(f.fileno())[stat.ST_MTIME]
f.write(text)
f.write("\n")
finally:
f.close()
inc = 1
now = os.stat(fname)[stat.ST_MTIME]
while now == before:
t = now + inc
inc += 1
os.utime(fname, (t, t))
now = os.stat(fname)[stat.ST_MTIME]