Fri, 15 Jul 2016 13:41:34 -0700 wireproto: extract repo filtering to standalone function
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Fri, 15 Jul 2016 13:41:34 -0700] rev 29590
wireproto: extract repo filtering to standalone function As part of teaching Mozilla's replication extension to better handle repositories with obsolescence data, I encountered a few scenarios where I wanted built-in wire protocol commands from replication clients to operate on unfiltered repositories so they could have access to obsolete changesets. While the undocumented "web.view" config option provides a mechanism to choose what filter/view hgweb operates on, this doesn't apply to wire protocol commands because wireproto.dispatch() is always operating on the "served" repo. This patch extracts the line for obtaining the repo that wireproto commands operate on to its own function so extensions can monkeypatch it to e.g. return an unfiltered repo. I stopped short of exposing a config option because I view the use case for changing this as a niche feature, best left to the domain of extensions.
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 19:16:46 -0700 url: add distribution and version to user-agent request header (BC)
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Thu, 14 Jul 2016 19:16:46 -0700] rev 29589
url: add distribution and version to user-agent request header (BC) As a server operator, I've always wanted to know what Mercurial version clients are running so I can track version adoption and make informed decisions about which versions of Mercurial to support in extensions. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to discern this today: the best you can do is look for high-level feature usage (e.g. bundle2) or sniff capabilities from bundle2 commands. And these things aren't changed frequently enough to tell you anything that interesting. Nearly every piece of software talking HTTP sends its version in the user agent. This includes web browsers, curl, and even Git. This patch adds the distribution name and version to the user-agent HTTP request header. We choose "Mercurial" for the distribution name because that seems appropriate. The version string comes from __version__. The value is inside parenthesis for a few reasons: * The version *may* contain spaces * Alternate forms like "Mercurial/<version>" imply structure and since the user agent should not be used by servers for protocol or feature negotiation/detection, we don't want to even give the illusion that the value should be parsed. A free form field is the most hostile to parsing. Flagging the patch as BC so it shows up in release notes. This change should be backwards compatible. But I wouldn't be surprised if a server somewhere is filtering on the exact old user agent string. So I want to make noise about this change.
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