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
from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function
# Import something from Mercurial, so the module loader gets initialized.
from mercurial import pycompat
del pycompat # unused for now
from hgext.lfs import pointer
def tryparse(text):
r = {}
try:
r = pointer.deserialize(text)
print('ok')
except Exception as ex:
print((b'%s' % ex).decode('ascii'))
if r:
text2 = r.serialize()
if text2 != text:
print('reconstructed text differs')
return r
t = (
b'version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1\n'
b'oid sha256:4d7a214614ab2935c943f9e0ff69d22eadbb8f32b1'
b'258daaa5e2ca24d17e2393\n'
b'size 12345\n'
b'x-foo extra-information\n'
)
tryparse(b'')
tryparse(t)
tryparse(t.replace(b'git-lfs', b'unknown'))
tryparse(t.replace(b'v1\n', b'v1\n\n'))
tryparse(t.replace(b'sha256', b'ahs256'))
tryparse(t.replace(b'sha256:', b''))
tryparse(t.replace(b'12345', b'0x12345'))
tryparse(t.replace(b'extra-information', b'extra\0information'))
tryparse(t.replace(b'extra-information', b'extra\ninformation'))
tryparse(t.replace(b'x-foo', b'x_foo'))
tryparse(t.replace(b'oid', b'blobid'))
tryparse(t.replace(b'size', b'size-bytes').replace(b'oid', b'object-id'))