annotate tests/artifacts/PURPOSE @ 39548:7ce9dea3a14a

localrepo: move repo creation logic out of localrepository.__init__ (API)

It has long bothered me that local repository creation is handled as
part of localrepository.__init__. Upcoming changes I want to make
around how repositories are initialized and instantiated will make
the continued existence of repository creation code in
localrepository.__init__ even more awkward.

localrepository instances are almost never constructed directly:
instead, callers are supposed to go through hg.repository() to obtain
a handle on a repository. And hg.repository() calls
localrepo.instance() to return a new repo instance.

This commit teaches localrepo.instance() to handle the create=True
logic. Most of the code for repo construction has been moved to a
standalone function. This allows extensions to monkeypatch the function
to further customize freshly-created repositories.

A few calls to localrepo.localrepository.__init__ that were passing
create=True were converted to call localrepo.instance().

.. api:: local repo creation moved out of constructor

   ``localrepo.localrepository.__init__`` no longer accepts a
   ``create`` argument to create a new repository. New repository
   creation is now performed as part of ``localrepo.instance()``
   and the bulk of the work is performed by
   ``localrepo.createrepository()``.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4534

This directory is meant to cache artifacts useful for tests (such as bundle).

Those artifacts need to be cached because they are slow to regenerate on each
test but too large to be tracked within the repository. They are not expected
to change between each run and can be cached.

The `./scripts/` contains code to generate the artifact while the `cache`
directory contains resulting artifact.