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
$ hg init a
$ cd a
$ hg diff inexistent1 inexistent2
inexistent1: * (glob)
inexistent2: * (glob)
$ echo bar > foo
$ hg add foo
$ hg ci -m 'add foo'
$ echo foobar > foo
$ hg ci -m 'change foo'
$ hg --quiet diff -r 0 -r 1
--- a/foo Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/foo Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,1 +1,1 @@
-bar
+foobar
$ hg diff -r 0 -r 1
diff -r a99fb63adac3 -r 9b8568d3af2f foo
--- a/foo Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/foo Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,1 +1,1 @@
-bar
+foobar
$ hg --verbose diff -r 0 -r 1
diff -r a99fb63adac3 -r 9b8568d3af2f foo
--- a/foo Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/foo Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,1 +1,1 @@
-bar
+foobar
$ hg --debug diff -r 0 -r 1
diff -r a99fb63adac3f31816a22f665bc3b7a7655b30f4 -r 9b8568d3af2f1749445eef03aede868a6f39f210 foo
--- a/foo Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/foo Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,1 +1,1 @@
-bar
+foobar
$ cd ..