mercurial/helptext/internals/censor.txt
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
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bundlerepo: move most attribute declaration earlier in __init__ The expected attribute are clearer this way. The bundle handling code is responsible for setting most of it.
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The censor system allows retroactively removing content from
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files. Actually censoring a node requires using the censor extension,
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but the functionality for handling censored nodes is partially in core.
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Censored nodes in a filelog have the flag ``REVIDX_ISCENSORED`` set,
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and the contents of the censored node are replaced with a censor
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tombstone. For historical reasons, the tombstone is packed in the
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filelog metadata field ``censored``. This allows censored nodes to be
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(mostly) safely transmitted through old formats like changegroup
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versions 1 and 2. When using changegroup formats older than 3, the
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receiver is required to re-add the ``REVIDX_ISCENSORED`` flag when
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storing the revision. This depends on the ``censored`` metadata key
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never being used for anything other than censoring revisions, which is
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true as of January 2017. Note that the revlog flag is the
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authoritative marker of a censored node: the tombstone should only be
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consulted when looking for a reason a node was censored or when revlog
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flags are unavailable as mentioned above.
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The tombstone data is a free-form string. It's expected that users of
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censor will want to record the reason for censoring a node in the
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tombstone. Censored nodes must be able to fit in the size of the
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content being censored.