changeset 20299:b4b77909318f

phases: add a formal note that hash of secret changeset may leak out For technical reason (discovery, obsolescence marker) the hash of secret changeset are communicated outside of your repo. We clarifie that in the help so that people does not used hash of secret changeset as nuclear launch code.
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@ens-lyon.org>
date Sun, 17 Nov 2013 11:30:17 -0500
parents 9d350fa0708e
children 0076643077a3
files mercurial/help/phases.txt
diffstat 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/mercurial/help/phases.txt	Sat Nov 16 15:54:41 2013 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/help/phases.txt	Sun Nov 17 11:30:17 2013 -0500
@@ -58,6 +58,13 @@
   Servers running older versions of Mercurial are treated as
   publishing.
 
+.. note::
+   Changesets in secret phase are not exchanged with the server. This
+   applies to their content: file names, file contents, and changeset
+   metadata. For technical reasons, the identifier (e.g. d825e4025e39)
+   of the secret changeset may be communicated to the server.
+
+
 Examples
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