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`.
#require execbit
$ hg init repo
$ cd repo
$ echo foo > foo
$ chmod 644 foo
$ hg ci -qAm '644'
$ chmod 755 foo
$ hg ci -qAm '755'
reverting to rev 0
$ hg revert -a -r 0
reverting foo
$ hg st
M foo
$ hg diff --git
diff --git a/foo b/foo
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
$ cd ..