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tests: port test-parseindex2.py to Python 3 # skip-blame just b prefixes and int() instead of long() Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D3494
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1 The censor system allows retroactively removing content from
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2 files. Actually censoring a node requires using the censor extension,
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3 but the functionality for handling censored nodes is partially in core.
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5 Censored nodes in a filelog have the flag ``REVIDX_ISCENSORED`` set,
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6 and the contents of the censored node are replaced with a censor
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7 tombstone. For historical reasons, the tombstone is packed in the
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8 filelog metadata field ``censored``. This allows censored nodes to be
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9 (mostly) safely transmitted through old formats like changegroup
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10 versions 1 and 2. When using changegroup formats older than 3, the
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11 receiver is required to re-add the ``REVIDX_ISCENSORED`` flag when
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12 storing the revision. This depends on the ``censored`` metadata key
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13 never being used for anything other than censoring revisions, which is
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14 true as of January 2017. Note that the revlog flag is the
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15 authoritative marker of a censored node: the tombstone should only be
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16 consulted when looking for a reason a node was censored or when revlog
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17 flags are unavailable as mentioned above.
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19 The tombstone data is a free-form string. It's expected that users of
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20 censor will want to record the reason for censoring a node in the
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21 tombstone. Censored nodes must be able to fit in the size of the
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22 content being censored.