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
$ echo "[extensions]" >> $HGRCPATH
$ echo "mq=" >> $HGRCPATH
$ hg init a
$ cd a
$ echo a > a
$ hg ci -Ama
adding a
$ hg qnew a.patch
$ echo a >> a
$ hg qrefresh
$ hg qnew b.patch
$ echo b > b
$ hg add b
$ hg qrefresh
$ hg qnew c.patch
$ echo c > c
$ hg add c
$ hg qrefresh
$ hg qgoto a.patch
popping c.patch
popping b.patch
now at: a.patch
$ hg qgoto c.patch
applying b.patch
applying c.patch
now at: c.patch
$ hg qgoto b.patch
popping c.patch
now at: b.patch
Using index:
$ hg qgoto 0
popping b.patch
now at: a.patch
$ hg qgoto 2
applying b.patch
applying c.patch
now at: c.patch
No warnings when using index ... and update from non-qtip and with pending
changes in unrelated files:
$ hg qnew bug314159
$ echo d >> c
$ hg qrefresh
$ hg qnew bug141421
$ echo e >> b
$ hg qrefresh
$ hg up -r bug314159
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo f >> a
$ echo f >> b
$ echo f >> c
$ hg qgoto 1
abort: local changes found, qrefresh first
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$ hg qgoto 1 -f
popping bug141421
popping bug314159
popping c.patch
now at: b.patch
$ hg st
M a
M b
? c.orig
$ hg up -qCr.
$ hg qgoto 3
applying c.patch
applying bug314159
now at: bug314159
Detect ambiguous non-index:
$ hg qgoto 14
patch name "14" is ambiguous:
bug314159
bug141421
abort: patch 14 not in series
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$ cd ..