mercurial/help/hg.1.txt
author Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com>
Fri, 03 Aug 2018 10:05:26 -0700
changeset 38893 23d582caae30
parent 35774 854a7315603e
child 41455 8427fea04017
permissions -rw-r--r--
changegroup: capture revision delta in a data structure The current changegroup generation code is tightly coupled to the revlog API. This tight coupling makes it difficult to implement alternate storage backends without requiring a large surface area of the revlog API to be exposed. This is not desirable. In order to support changegroup generation with non-revlog storage, we'll need to abstract the concept of delta generation. This commit is the first step down that road. We introduce a data structure for representing a delta in a changegroup. The API still leaves a lot to be desired. But at least we now have separation between data and actions performed on it. As part of this, we tweak behavior slightly: we no longer concatenate the delta prefix with the metadata header. Instead, we track and emit the prefix as a separate chunk. This shouldn't have any meaningful impact since all the chunks just get sent to the wire, the compressor, etc. Because we're introducing a new object, this does add some overhead to changegroup execution. `hg perfchangegroupchangelog` on my clone of the Mercurial repo (~40,000 visible revisions in the changelog) slows down a bit: ! wall 1.268600 comb 1.270000 user 1.270000 sys 0.000000 (best of 8) ! wall 1.419479 comb 1.410000 user 1.410000 sys 0.000000 (best of 8) With for `hg bundle -t none-v2 -a /dev/null`: before: real 6.610 secs (user 6.460+0.000 sys 0.140+0.000) after: real 7.210 secs (user 7.060+0.000 sys 0.140+0.000) I plan to claw back this regression in future commits. And I may even do away with this data structure once the refactor is complete. For now, it makes things easier to comprehend. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4075

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 hg
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Mercurial source code management system
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:Author:         Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
:Organization:   Mercurial
:Manual section: 1
:Manual group:   Mercurial Manual

.. contents::
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   :class: htmlonly
   :depth: 1


Synopsis
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**hg** *command* [*option*]... [*argument*]...

Description
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The **hg** command provides a command line interface to the Mercurial
system.

Command Elements
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files...
    indicates one or more filename or relative path filenames; see
    `File Name Patterns`_ for information on pattern matching

path
    indicates a path on the local machine

revision
    indicates a changeset which can be specified as a changeset
    revision number, a tag, or a unique substring of the changeset
    hash value

repository path
    either the pathname of a local repository or the URI of a remote
    repository.

.. include:: hg.1.gendoc.txt

Files
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``/etc/mercurial/hgrc``, ``$HOME/.hgrc``, ``.hg/hgrc``
    This file contains defaults and configuration. Values in
    ``.hg/hgrc`` override those in ``$HOME/.hgrc``, and these override
    settings made in the global ``/etc/mercurial/hgrc`` configuration.
    See |hgrc(5)|_ for details of the contents and format of these
    files.

``.hgignore``
    This file contains regular expressions (one per line) that
    describe file names that should be ignored by **hg**. For details,
    see |hgignore(5)|_.

``.hgsub``
    This file defines the locations of all subrepositories, and
    tells where the subrepository checkouts came from. For details, see
    :hg:`help subrepos`.

``.hgsubstate``
    This file is where Mercurial stores all nested repository states. *NB: This
    file should not be edited manually.*

``.hgtags``
    This file contains changeset hash values and text tag names (one
    of each separated by spaces) that correspond to tagged versions of
    the repository contents. The file content is encoded using UTF-8.

``.hg/last-message.txt``
    This file is used by :hg:`commit` to store a backup of the commit message
    in case the commit fails.

``.hg/localtags``
    This file can be used to define local tags which are not shared among
    repositories. The file format is the same as for ``.hgtags``, but it is
    encoded using the local system encoding.

Some commands (e.g. revert) produce backup files ending in ``.orig``,
if the ``.orig`` file already exists and is not tracked by Mercurial,
it will be overwritten.

Bugs
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Probably lots, please post them to the mailing list (see Resources_
below) when you find them.

See Also
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|hgignore(5)|_, |hgrc(5)|_

Author
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Written by Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>

Resources
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Main Web Site: https://mercurial-scm.org/

Source code repository: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg

Mailing list: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial/

Copying
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Copyright (C) 2005-2018 Matt Mackall.
Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General
Public License version 2 or any later version.

.. include:: common.txt