Mercurial > hg-stable
changeset 24481:dded1eeeff64
verify: add a note about a paleo-bug
In the very early days of hg, it was possible to commit /dev/null because our
patch importer was too simple. Repos from this era may still
exist, add a note about why we ignore this name.
| author | Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> |
|---|---|
| date | Fri, 27 Mar 2015 15:13:21 -0500 |
| parents | 3df7fc75afc5 |
| children | 3eb9045396b0 |
| files | mercurial/verify.py |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/mercurial/verify.py Fri Mar 27 13:51:21 2015 -0500 +++ b/mercurial/verify.py Fri Mar 27 15:13:21 2015 -0500 @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ for f, fn in mf.readdelta(n).iteritems(): if not f: err(lr, _("file without name in manifest")) - elif f != "/dev/null": + elif f != "/dev/null": # ignore this in very old repos filenodes.setdefault(_normpath(f), {}).setdefault(fn, lr) except Exception, inst: exc(lr, _("reading manifest delta %s") % short(n), inst)