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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

# repoviewutil.py - constaints data relevant to repoview.py and other module
#
# Copyright 2012 Pierre-Yves David <[e-mail]>
#                Logilab SA        <[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

### Nearest subset relation
# Nearest subset of filter X is a filter Y so that:
# * Y is included in X,
# * X - Y is as small as possible.
# This create and ordering used for branchmap purpose.
# the ordering may be partial
subsettable = {
    None: b'visible',
    b'visible-hidden': b'visible',
    b'visible': b'served',
    b'served.hidden': b'served',
    b'served': b'immutable',
    b'immutable': b'base',
}