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documentation: add some internals documentation about bid merge

This is an important algorithm that was only documented on the wiki so far.

Some update to the algorithm (and associated doc) is to expected in the future
since the bid merge algorithm is bug-ridden when it comes to file deletion comes
to play.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D8711

# node.py - basic nodeid manipulation for mercurial
#
# Copyright 2005, 2006 Matt Mackall <[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.

from __future__ import absolute_import

import binascii

# This ugly style has a noticeable effect in manifest parsing
hex = binascii.hexlify
# Adapt to Python 3 API changes. If this ends up showing up in
# profiles, we can use this version only on Python 3, and forward
# binascii.unhexlify like we used to on Python 2.
def bin(s):
    try:
        return binascii.unhexlify(s)
    except binascii.Error as e:
        raise TypeError(e)


nullrev = -1
# In hex, this is '0000000000000000000000000000000000000000'
nullid = b"\0" * 20
nullhex = hex(nullid)

# Phony node value to stand-in for new files in some uses of
# manifests.
# In hex, this is '2121212121212121212121212121212121212121'
newnodeid = b'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'
# In hex, this is '3030303030303030303030303030306164646564'
addednodeid = b'000000000000000added'
# In hex, this is '3030303030303030303030306d6f646966696564'
modifiednodeid = b'000000000000modified'

wdirfilenodeids = {newnodeid, addednodeid, modifiednodeid}

# pseudo identifiers for working directory
# (they are experimental, so don't add too many dependencies on them)
wdirrev = 0x7FFFFFFF
# In hex, this is 'ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff'
wdirid = b"\xff" * 20
wdirhex = hex(wdirid)


def short(node):
    return hex(node[:6])