revlog: seek to end of file before writing (issue4943) Revlogs were recently refactored to open file handles in "a+" and use a persistent file handle for reading and writing. This drastically reduced the number of file handles being opened. Unfortunately, it appears that some versions of Solaris lose the file offset when performing a write after the handle has been seeked. The simplest workaround is to seek to EOF on files opened in a+ mode before writing to them, which is what this patch does. Ideally, this code would exist in the vfs layer. However, this would require creating a proxy class for file objects in order to provide a custom implementation of write(). This would add overhead. Since revlogs are the only files we open in a+ mode, the one-off workaround in revlog.py should be sufficient. This patch appears to have little to no impact on performance on my Linux machine.

manifestmerge: have manifest do matching before diffing This means that the diff code does less work, potentially significantly less in the case of treemanifests. It also should ease implementation with narrowed clone cases (such as narrowhg) when we don't always have the entire set of treemanifest revlogs locally. As far as I can tell, this codepath is currently only used by record, so it'll probably die in the near future, and then narrowhg won't have to worry about composing with some unknown matching system.

branch: reword help text We're not necessarily talking about *the* active branch, just any old branch.

archive: adjust help text

annotate: add missing period to help

addremove: make help match add

add: mention .hgignore in help