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run-tests: factor appdata out This is a gratuitous readability change. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10940
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
date Fri, 02 Jul 2021 22:50:43 +0200
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1 Octopus Merge Support
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2 =====================
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4 This will be moderately complicated, as we'll need to synthesize phony
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5 changeset entries to explode the octopus into "revisions" that only
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6 have two parents each. For today, we can probably just do something like
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8 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaXX{20 bytes of exploded node's hex sha}
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10 where XX is a counter (so we could have as many as 255 parents in a
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11 git commit - more than I think we'd ever see.) That means that we can
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12 install some check in this extension to disallow checking out or
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13 otherwise interacting with the `aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa` revisions.
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16 Interface Creation
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17 ====================
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19 We at least need an interface definition for `changelog` in core that
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20 this extension can satisfy, and again for `basicstore`.
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23 Reason About Locking
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24 ====================
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26 We should spend some time thinking hard about locking, especially on
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27 .git/index etc. We're probably adequately locking the _git_
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28 repository, but may not have enough locking correctness in places
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29 where hg does locking that git isn't aware of (notably the working
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30 copy, which I believe Git does not lock.)