view mercurial/helptext/extensions.txt @ 45571:7543b5072e84

sidedata: add a `decode_files_sidedata` function

Right now the function mostly gather existing code to build a consistent object.
However having this function allow us prepare all user code independently from
the actual side data format change (and associated encoding/decoding changes)

Strictly speaking, we could not need to passe the sidedata explicitly since we
have access to it though the `changelogrevision` object. However, the short
term goal is to drop that first parameter to only pass the sidedata binaries.

Mercurial has the ability to add new features through the use of
extensions. Extensions may add new commands, add options to
existing commands, change the default behavior of commands, or
implement hooks.

To enable the "foo" extension, either shipped with Mercurial or in the
Python search path, create an entry for it in your configuration file,
like this::

  [extensions]
  foo =

You may also specify the full path to an extension::

  [extensions]
  myfeature = ~/.hgext/myfeature.py

See :hg:`help config` for more information on configuration files.

Extensions are not loaded by default for a variety of reasons:
they can increase startup overhead; they may be meant for advanced
usage only; they may provide potentially dangerous abilities (such
as letting you destroy or modify history); they might not be ready
for prime time; or they may alter some usual behaviors of stock
Mercurial. It is thus up to the user to activate extensions as
needed.

To explicitly disable an extension enabled in a configuration file of
broader scope, prepend its path with !::

  [extensions]
  # disabling extension bar residing in /path/to/extension/bar.py
  bar = !/path/to/extension/bar.py
  # ditto, but no path was supplied for extension baz
  baz = !