exchange: support sorting URLs by client-side preferences
Not all bundles are appropriate for all clients. For example, someone
with a slow Internet connection may want to prefer bz2 bundles over gzip
bundles because they are smaller and don't take as long to transfer.
This is information that a server cannot know on its own. So, we invent
a mechanism for "preferring" server-advertised URLs based on their
attributes.
We could invent a negotiation between client and server where the client
sends its preferences and the sorting/filtering is done server-side.
However, this feels complex. We can avoid complicating the wire protocol
and exposing ourselves to backwards compatible concerns by performing
the sorting locally.
This patch defines a new config option for expressing preferred
attributes in server-advertised bundles.
At Mozilla, we leverage this feature so clients in fast data centers
prefer uncompressed bundles. (We advertise gzip bundles first because
that is a reasonable default.)
I consider this an advanced feature. I'm on the fence as to whether it
should be documented in `hg help config`.
$ hg init
$ echo a > a
$ hg ci -qAm 'add a'
$ hg init subrepo
$ echo 'subrepo = http://example.net/libfoo' > .hgsub
$ hg ci -qAm 'added subrepo'
$ hg up -qC 0
$ echo ax > a
$ hg ci -m 'changed a'
created new head
$ hg up -qC 1
$ cd subrepo
$ echo b > b
$ hg add b
$ cd ..
Should fail, since there are added files to subrepo:
$ hg merge
abort: uncommitted changes in subrepository 'subrepo'
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