Mercurial > hg-stable
changeset 40562:b35a096b9bff
remotefilelog: add some docstring
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D5131
| author | Augie Fackler <augie@google.com> |
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| date | Wed, 17 Oct 2018 09:12:29 -0400 |
| parents | 466dd4d70bff |
| children | 525dcf5c1d41 |
| files | hgext/remotefilelog/__init__.py |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/hgext/remotefilelog/__init__.py Thu Oct 04 10:03:10 2018 -0400 +++ b/hgext/remotefilelog/__init__.py Wed Oct 17 09:12:29 2018 -0400 @@ -6,6 +6,17 @@ # GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version. """remotefilelog causes Mercurial to lazilly fetch file contents (EXPERIMENTAL) +This extension is HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL. There are NO BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY +GUARANTEES. This means that repositories created with this extension may +only be usable with the exact version of this extension/Mercurial that was +used. The extension attempts to enforce this in order to prevent repository +corruption. + +remotefilelog works by fetching file contents lazily and storing them +in a cache on the client rather than in revlogs. This allows enormous +histories to be transferred only partially, making them easier to +operate on. + Configs: ``packs.maxchainlen`` specifies the maximum delta chain length in pack files