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internals: document CBOR utilization

I spoke with some people at Mozilla about CBOR and they advised me
that we should be careful about the subset of CBOR we use in order
to mitigate security, performance, and compatibility concerns.

This commit establishes a document that attempts to formalize our
use of CBOR.

Its main limitations are on what types are allowed. It explicitly
enumerates which types are supported. Notable missing features
include:

* Indefinite-length arrays and maps
* Text strings (bytes all the way)
* Floats
* Date/time types
* Big integers
* Use of indefinite-length byte strings for map keys, values in
  containers.

If we have a need for any of these, we can have a discussion about
them when the time comes.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4412

#require test-repo

  $ . "$TESTDIR/helpers-testrepo.sh"
  $ check_code="$TESTDIR"/../contrib/check-code.py
  $ cd "$TESTDIR"/..

New errors are not allowed. Warnings are strongly discouraged.
(The writing "no-che?k-code" is for not skipping this file when checking.)

  $ testrepohg locate \
  > -X contrib/python-zstandard \
  > -X hgext/fsmonitor/pywatchman \
  > -X mercurial/thirdparty \
  > | sed 's-\\-/-g' | "$check_code" --warnings --per-file=0 - || false
  Skipping i18n/polib.py it has no-che?k-code (glob)
  Skipping mercurial/statprof.py it has no-che?k-code (glob)
  Skipping tests/badserverext.py it has no-che?k-code (glob)

@commands in debugcommands.py should be in alphabetical order.

  >>> import re
  >>> commands = []
  >>> with open('mercurial/debugcommands.py', 'rb') as fh:
  ...     for line in fh:
  ...         m = re.match(b"^@command\('([a-z]+)", line)
  ...         if m:
  ...             commands.append(m.group(1))
  >>> scommands = list(sorted(commands))
  >>> for i, command in enumerate(scommands):
  ...     if command != commands[i]:
  ...         print('commands in debugcommands.py not sorted; first differing '
  ...               'command is %s; expected %s' % (commands[i], command))
  ...         break

Prevent adding new files in the root directory accidentally.

  $ testrepohg files 'glob:*'
  .arcconfig
  .clang-format
  .editorconfig
  .hgignore
  .hgsigs
  .hgtags
  .jshintrc
  CONTRIBUTING
  CONTRIBUTORS
  COPYING
  Makefile
  README.rst
  hg
  hgeditor
  hgweb.cgi
  setup.py

Prevent adding modules which could be shadowed by ancient .so/.dylib.

  $ testrepohg files \
  > mercurial/base85.py \
  > mercurial/bdiff.py \
  > mercurial/diffhelpers.py \
  > mercurial/mpatch.py \
  > mercurial/osutil.py \
  > mercurial/parsers.py \
  > mercurial/zstd.py
  [1]