Mercurial > hg-stable
changeset 24977:4289383cb9d2
changegroup: document the cases where reordering complicates linkrevs
| author | Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@google.com> |
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| date | Wed, 29 Apr 2015 13:25:07 -0700 |
| parents | 147d8892fc4b |
| children | f52560c64953 |
| files | mercurial/changegroup.py |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/mercurial/changegroup.py Wed Apr 29 10:34:28 2015 -0700 +++ b/mercurial/changegroup.py Wed Apr 29 13:25:07 2015 -0700 @@ -385,6 +385,21 @@ yield chunk self._verbosenote(_('%8.i (changelog)\n') % size) + # We need to make sure that the linkrev in the changegroup refers to + # the first changeset that introduced the manifest or file revision. + # The fastpath is usually safer than the slowpath, because the filelogs + # are walked in revlog order. + # + # When taking the slowpath with reorder=None and the manifest revlog + # uses generaldelta, the manifest may be walked in the "wrong" order. + # Without 'clrevorder', we would get an incorrect linkrev (see fix in + # cc0ff93d0c0c). + # + # When taking the fastpath, we are only vulnerable to reordering + # of the changelog itself. The changelog never uses generaldelta, so + # it is only reordered when reorder=True. To handle this case, we + # simply take the slowpath, which already has the 'clrevorder' logic. + # This was also fixed in cc0ff93d0c0c. fastpathlinkrev = fastpathlinkrev and not self._reorder # Callback for the manifest, used to collect linkrevs for filelog # revisions.