Emacs: separate limitations of revision range and shown changesets.
For revision range limitation,
use "-r" opt with range notation at "hg log" invocation, and
use hg-rev-completion-limit as default value.
For shown changesets limitation,
use "-l" opt at "hg log" invocation, and
use hg-log-limit as default value.
#!/bin/sh
hg init
cat > .hg/hgrc <<EOF
[encode]
*.gz = gunzip
[decode]
*.gz = gzip
EOF
echo "this is a test" | gzip > a.gz
hg add a.gz
hg ci -m "test" -d "1000000 0"
echo %% no changes
hg status
touch a.gz
echo %% no changes
hg status
echo %% uncompressed contents in repo
hg debugdata .hg/data/a.gz.d 0
echo %% uncompress our working dir copy
gunzip < a.gz
rm a.gz
hg co
echo %% uncompress our new working dir copy
gunzip < a.gz