view hgext/children.py @ 31793:69d8fcf20014

help: document bundle specifications

I softly formalized the concept of a "bundle specification" a while
ago when I was working on clone bundles and stream clone bundles and
wanted a more robust way to define what exactly is in a bundle file.

The concept has existed for a while. Since it is part of the clone
bundles feature and exposed to the user via the "-t" argument to
`hg bundle`, it is something we need to support for the long haul.

After the 4.1 release, I heard a few people comment that they didn't
realize you could generate zstd bundles with `hg bundle`. I'm
partially to blame for not documenting it in bundle's docstring.

Additionally, I added a hacky, experimental feature for controlling
the compression level of bundles in 76104a4899ad. As the commit
message says, I went with a quick and dirty solution out of time
constraints. Furthermore, I wanted to eventually store this
configuration in the "bundlespec" so it could be made more flexible.

Given:

a) bundlespecs are here to stay
b) we don't have great documentation over what they are, despite being
   a user-facing feature
c) the list of available compression engines and their behavior isn't
   exposed
d) we need an extensible place to modify behavior of compression
   engines

I want to move forward with formalizing bundlespecs as a user-facing
feature. This commit does that by introducing a "bundlespec" help
page. Leaning on the just-added compression engine documentation
and API, the topic also conveniently lists available compression
engines and details about them. This makes features like zstd
bundle compression more discoverable. e.g. you can now
`hg help -k zstd` and it lists the "bundlespec" topic.

# Mercurial extension to provide the 'hg children' command
#
# Copyright 2007 by Intevation GmbH <[e-mail]>
#
# Author(s):
# Thomas Arendsen Hein <[e-mail]>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

'''command to display child changesets (DEPRECATED)

This extension is deprecated. You should use :hg:`log -r
"children(REV)"` instead.
'''

from __future__ import absolute_import

from mercurial.i18n import _
from mercurial import (
    cmdutil,
    commands,
)

templateopts = commands.templateopts

cmdtable = {}
command = cmdutil.command(cmdtable)
# Note for extension authors: ONLY specify testedwith = 'ships-with-hg-core' for
# extensions which SHIP WITH MERCURIAL. Non-mainline extensions should
# be specifying the version(s) of Mercurial they are tested with, or
# leave the attribute unspecified.
testedwith = 'ships-with-hg-core'

@command('children',
    [('r', 'rev', '',
     _('show children of the specified revision'), _('REV')),
    ] + templateopts,
    _('hg children [-r REV] [FILE]'),
    inferrepo=True)
def children(ui, repo, file_=None, **opts):
    """show the children of the given or working directory revision

    Print the children of the working directory's revisions. If a
    revision is given via -r/--rev, the children of that revision will
    be printed. If a file argument is given, revision in which the
    file was last changed (after the working directory revision or the
    argument to --rev if given) is printed.

    Please use :hg:`log` instead::

        hg children => hg log -r "children()"
        hg children -r REV => hg log -r "children(REV)"

    See :hg:`help log` and :hg:`help revsets.children`.

    """
    rev = opts.get('rev')
    if file_:
        fctx = repo.filectx(file_, changeid=rev)
        childctxs = [fcctx.changectx() for fcctx in fctx.children()]
    else:
        ctx = repo[rev]
        childctxs = ctx.children()

    displayer = cmdutil.show_changeset(ui, repo, opts)
    for cctx in childctxs:
        displayer.show(cctx)
    displayer.close()