hg-stable: Changelog

dirstate: change added/modified placeholder hash length to 20 bytes Previously the added/modified placeholder hash for manifests generated from the dirstate was a 21byte long string consisting of the p1 file hash plus a single character to indicate an add or a modify. Normal hashes are only 20 bytes long. This makes it complicated to implement more efficient manifest implementations which rely on the hashes being fixed length. Let's change this hash to just be 20 bytes long, and rely on the astronomical improbability of an actual hash being these 20 bytes (just like we rely on no hash every being the nullid). This changes the possible behavior slightly in that the hash for all added/modified entries in the dirstate manifest will now be the same (so simple node comparisons would say they are equal), but we should never be doing simple node comparisons on these nodes even with the old hashes, because they did not accurately represent the content (i.e. two files based off the same p1 file node, with different working copy contents would have the same hash (even with the appended character) in the old scheme too, so we couldn't depend on the hashes period).

dirstate: change placeholder hash length to 20 bytes Previously the new-node placeholder hash for manifests generated from the dirstate was a 21byte long string of "!" characters. Normal hashes are only 20 bytes long. This makes it complicated to implement more efficient manifest implementations which rely on the hashes being fixed length. Let's change this hash to just be 20 bytes long, and rely on the astronomical improbability of an actual hash being 20 "!" bytes in a row (just like we rely on no hash ever being the nullid). A future diff will do this for added and modified dirstate markers as well, so we're putting the new newnodeid in node.py so there's a common place for these placeholders.

util: remove compressorobj API from compression engines All callers have been replaced with "compressstream." It is quite low-level and redundant with "compressstream." So eliminate it.

hgweb: use compression engine API for zlib compression More low-level compression code elimination because we now have nice APIs. This patch also demonstrates why we needed and implemented the "level" option on the "compressstream" API.

bundle2: use compressstream compression engine API Compression engines now have an API for compressing a stream of chunks. Switch to it and make low-level compression code disappear.

util: add a stream compression API to compression engines It is a common pattern throughout the code to perform compression on an iterator of chunks, yielding an iterator of compressed chunks. Let's formalize that as part of the compression engine API. The zlib and bzip2 implementations allow an optional "level" option to control the compression level. The default values are the same as what the Python modules use. This option will be used in subsequent patches.