internals: document CBOR utilization
I spoke with some people at Mozilla about CBOR and they advised me
that we should be careful about the subset of CBOR we use in order
to mitigate security, performance, and compatibility concerns.
This commit establishes a document that attempts to formalize our
use of CBOR.
Its main limitations are on what types are allowed. It explicitly
enumerates which types are supported. Notable missing features
include:
* Indefinite-length arrays and maps
* Text strings (bytes all the way)
* Floats
* Date/time types
* Big integers
* Use of indefinite-length byte strings for map keys, values in
containers.
If we have a need for any of these, we can have a discussion about
them when the time comes.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4412
$ cat <<EOF >> $HGRCPATH
> [extensions]
> convert =
> [convert]
> hg.tagsbranch = 0
> EOF
$ hg init source
$ cd source
$ echo a > a
$ hg ci -qAm adda
Add a merge with one parent in the same branch
$ echo a >> a
$ hg ci -qAm changea
$ hg up -qC 0
$ hg branch branch0
marked working directory as branch branch0
(branches are permanent and global, did you want a bookmark?)
$ echo b > b
$ hg ci -qAm addb
$ hg up -qC
$ hg merge default
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
$ hg ci -qm mergeab
$ hg tag -ql mergeab
$ cd ..
Miss perl... sometimes
$ cat > filter.py <<EOF
> from __future__ import absolute_import
> import re
> import sys
>
> r = re.compile(r'^(?:\d+|pulling from)')
> sys.stdout.writelines([l for l in sys.stdin if r.search(l)])
> EOF
convert
$ hg convert -v --config convert.hg.clonebranches=1 source dest |
> $PYTHON filter.py
3 adda
2 changea
1 addb
pulling from default into branch0
1 changesets found
0 mergeab
pulling from default into branch0
1 changesets found
Add a merge with both parents and child in different branches
$ cd source
$ hg branch branch1
marked working directory as branch branch1
$ echo a > file1
$ hg ci -qAm c1
$ hg up -qC mergeab
$ hg branch branch2
marked working directory as branch branch2
$ echo a > file2
$ hg ci -qAm c2
$ hg merge branch1
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
$ hg branch branch3
marked working directory as branch branch3
$ hg ci -qAm c3
$ cd ..
incremental conversion
$ hg convert -v --config convert.hg.clonebranches=1 source dest |
> $PYTHON filter.py
2 c1
pulling from branch0 into branch1
4 changesets found
1 c2
pulling from branch0 into branch2
4 changesets found
0 c3
pulling from branch1 into branch3
5 changesets found
pulling from branch2 into branch3
1 changesets found