Mercurial > hg
diff mercurial/help/config.txt @ 27606:ebe57ccd4822
help: refactor version/defaults from format section
The old messages implied that disabling a single setting would ensure
compatibility, but if you disabled one of the older flags, and
left a newer flag, that would not actually do what the docs say.
author | timeless <timeless@mozdev.org> |
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date | Wed, 30 Dec 2015 17:04:08 +0000 |
parents | 7793b3e220f6 |
children | ee27d461bf5b |
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--- a/mercurial/help/config.txt Wed Dec 30 17:06:11 2015 +0000 +++ b/mercurial/help/config.txt Wed Dec 30 17:04:08 2015 +0000 @@ -670,33 +670,41 @@ Enable or disable the "generaldelta" repository format which improves repository compression by allowing "revlog" to store delta against arbitrary revision instead of the previous stored one. This provides significant - improvement for repositories with branches. Enabled by default. Disabling - this option ensures that the on-disk format of newly created repository will - be compatible with Mercurial before version 1.9. + improvement for repositories with branches. + + Repositories with this on-disk format require Mercurial version 1.9. + + Enabled by default. ``dotencode`` Enable or disable the "dotencode" repository format which enhances the "fncache" repository format (which has to be enabled to use dotencode) to avoid issues with filenames starting with ._ on - Mac OS X and spaces on Windows. Enabled by default. Disabling this - option ensures that the on-disk format of newly created - repositories will be compatible with Mercurial before version 1.7. + Mac OS X and spaces on Windows. + + Repositories with this on-disk format require Mercurial version 1.7. + + Enabled by default. ``usefncache`` Enable or disable the "fncache" repository format which enhances the "store" repository format (which has to be enabled to use fncache) to allow longer filenames and avoids using Windows - reserved names, e.g. "nul". Enabled by default. Disabling this - option ensures that the on-disk format of newly created - repositories will be compatible with Mercurial before version 1.1. + reserved names, e.g. "nul". + + Repositories with this on-disk format require Mercurial version 1.1. + + Enabled by default. ``usestore`` Enable or disable the "store" repository format which improves compatibility with systems that fold case or otherwise mangle - filenames. Enabled by default. Disabling this option will allow - you to store longer filenames in some situations at the expense of - compatibility and ensures that the on-disk format of newly created - repositories will be compatible with Mercurial before version 0.9.4. + filenames. Disabling this option will allow you to store longer filenames + in some situations at the expense of compatibility. + + Repositories with this on-disk format require Mercurial version 0.9.4. + + Enabled by default. ``graph`` ---------