dirstate-v2: Document flags/mode/size/mtime fields of tree nodes
This file format modification was previously left incomplete because of
planned upcoming changes. Not all of these changes have been made yet,
but documenting what exists today will help talking more widely about it.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11625
$ hg init
$ cat > .hg/hgrc <<EOF
> [extensions]
> prefixfilter = prefix.py
> [encode]
> *.txt = stripprefix: Copyright 2046, The Masters
> [decode]
> *.txt = insertprefix: Copyright 2046, The Masters
> EOF
$ cat > prefix.py <<EOF
> from mercurial import error
> def stripprefix(s, cmd, filename, **kwargs):
> header = b'%s\n' % cmd
> if s[:len(header)] != header:
> raise error.Abort(b'missing header "%s" in %s' % (cmd, filename))
> return s[len(header):]
> def insertprefix(s, cmd):
> return b'%s\n%s' % (cmd, s)
> def reposetup(ui, repo):
> repo.adddatafilter(b'stripprefix:', stripprefix)
> repo.adddatafilter(b'insertprefix:', insertprefix)
> EOF
$ cat > .hgignore <<EOF
> .hgignore
> prefix.py
> prefix.pyc
> __pycache__/
> EOF
$ cat > stuff.txt <<EOF
> Copyright 2046, The Masters
> Some stuff to ponder very carefully.
> EOF
$ hg add stuff.txt
$ hg ci -m stuff
Repository data:
$ hg cat stuff.txt
Some stuff to ponder very carefully.
Fresh checkout:
$ rm stuff.txt
$ hg up -C
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ cat stuff.txt
Copyright 2046, The Masters
Some stuff to ponder very carefully.
$ echo "Very very carefully." >> stuff.txt
$ hg stat
M stuff.txt
$ echo "Unauthorized material subject to destruction." > morestuff.txt
Problem encoding:
$ hg add morestuff.txt
$ hg ci -m morestuff
abort: missing header "Copyright 2046, The Masters" in morestuff.txt
[255]
$ hg stat
M stuff.txt
A morestuff.txt