Mercurial > hg-stable
changeset 38735:8891dc15b327
config: document the purpose of the `format` config section
The config section now have a top level documentation to clarify its intend and
usage. In particular, user are now explain when the option are taken in account
and how to convert repository.
There are an handful of experimental options in this section that does not match
its definition. They should be relocated to other section before getting out of
experimental. (see next changeset for one example).
| author | Boris Feld <boris.feld@octobus.net> |
|---|---|
| date | Thu, 19 Jul 2018 09:57:42 +0200 |
| parents | 25880ddf9a86 |
| children | 93777d16a25d |
| files | mercurial/help/config.txt |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/mercurial/help/config.txt Wed Jul 18 18:36:39 2018 -0700 +++ b/mercurial/help/config.txt Thu Jul 19 09:57:42 2018 +0200 @@ -790,6 +790,14 @@ ``format`` ---------- +Configuration that controls the repository format. Newer format options are more +powerful but incompatible with some older versions of Mercurial. Format options +are considered at repository initialization only. You need to make a new clone +for config change to be taken into account. + +For more details about repository format and version compatibility, see +https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/MissingRequirement + ``usegeneraldelta`` Enable or disable the "generaldelta" repository format which improves repository compression by allowing "revlog" to store delta against arbitrary