httppeer: don't accept very old media types (BC)
Versions of Mercurial older than 1.0 emitted the text/plain
and application/hg-changegroup media types in response to wire
protocol commands.
Way back in
8760d0c83b9b in 2005, the code validating these media
types was added, presumably for backwards compatibility.
0b245edec124
a short time before that commit changed things from text/plain and
application/hg-changegroup to application/mercurial-0.1 and
application/hg-0.1.
8760d0c83b9b seemed to indicate ("for now") that
the BC compatibility was temporary. But that code has lived until
this day.
It has been more than 10 years and nobody should be running pre 1.0
servers.
Pretty much the only risk to this is if there's a server somewhere
advertising the old media types or server software is interfering
and not letting Mercurial send the proper Content-Type header. I
think the chances are rare.
The wire protocol docs were created (by me) from reading existing
code. So the deletions don't constitute a spec change as much as
reflecting the reality of how things have been for years.
.. bc::
The HTTP client no longer accepts text/plain and
application/hg-changegroup Content-Type values as a valid Mercurial
command response. These should only be encountered on pre 1.0
Mercurial servers.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D3239
Some Mercurial commands can produce a lot of output, and Mercurial will
attempt to use a pager to make those commands more pleasant.
To set the pager that should be used, set the application variable::
[pager]
pager = less -FRX
If no pager is set in the user or repository configuration, Mercurial uses the
environment variable $PAGER. If $PAGER is not set, pager.pager from the default
or system configuration is used. If none of these are set, a default pager will
be used, typically `less` on Unix and `more` on Windows.
.. container:: windows
On Windows, `more` is not color aware, so using it effectively disables color.
MSYS and Cygwin shells provide `less` as a pager, which can be configured to
support ANSI color codes. See :hg:`help config.color.pagermode` to configure
the color mode when invoking a pager.
You can disable the pager for certain commands by adding them to the
pager.ignore list::
[pager]
ignore = version, help, update
To ignore global commands like :hg:`version` or :hg:`help`, you have
to specify them in your user configuration file.
To control whether the pager is used at all for an individual command,
you can use --pager=<value>:
- use as needed: `auto`.
- require the pager: `yes` or `on`.
- suppress the pager: `no` or `off` (any unrecognized value
will also work).
To globally turn off all attempts to use a pager, set::
[ui]
paginate = never
which will prevent the pager from running.