verify: check the subrepository references in .hgsubstate
While hopefully atypical, there are reasons that a subrepository revision can be
lost that aren't covered by corruption of the .hgsubstate revlog. Such things
can happen when a subrepo is amended, stripped or simply isn't pulled from
upstream because the parent repo revision wasn't updated yet. There's no way to
know if it is an error, but this will find potential problems sooner than when
some random revision is updated.
Until recently, convert made no attempt at rewriting the .hgsubstate file. The
impetuous for this is to verify the conversion of some repositories, and this is
orders of magnitude faster than a bash script from 0..tip that does an
'hg update -C $rev'. But it is equally useful to determine if everything has
been pulled down before taking a thumb drive on the go.
It feels somewhat wrong to leave this out of verifymod (mostly because the file
is already read in there, and the final summary is printed before the subrepos
are checked). But verifymod looks very low level, so importing subrepo stuff
there seems more wrong.
Mercurial has the ability to add new features through the use of
extensions. Extensions may add new commands, add options to
existing commands, change the default behavior of commands, or
implement hooks.
To enable the "foo" extension, either shipped with Mercurial or in the
Python search path, create an entry for it in your configuration file,
like this::
[extensions]
foo =
You may also specify the full path to an extension::
[extensions]
myfeature = ~/.hgext/myfeature.py
See :hg:`help config` for more information on configuration files.
Extensions are not loaded by default for a variety of reasons:
they can increase startup overhead; they may be meant for advanced
usage only; they may provide potentially dangerous abilities (such
as letting you destroy or modify history); they might not be ready
for prime time; or they may alter some usual behaviors of stock
Mercurial. It is thus up to the user to activate extensions as
needed.
To explicitly disable an extension enabled in a configuration file of
broader scope, prepend its path with !::
[extensions]
# disabling extension bar residing in /path/to/extension/bar.py
bar = !/path/to/extension/bar.py
# ditto, but no path was supplied for extension baz
baz = !