tests/test-revlog.t

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

  $ hg init empty-repo
  $ cd empty-repo

Flags on revlog version 0 are rejected

  >>> with open('.hg/store/00changelog.i', 'wb') as fh:
  ...     fh.write(b'\x00\x01\x00\x00') and None

  $ hg log
  abort: unknown flags (0x01) in version 0 revlog 00changelog.i!
  [255]

Unknown flags on revlog version 1 are rejected

  >>> with open('.hg/store/00changelog.i', 'wb') as fh:
  ...     fh.write(b'\x00\x04\x00\x01') and None

  $ hg log
  abort: unknown flags (0x04) in version 1 revlog 00changelog.i!
  [255]

Unknown version is rejected

  >>> with open('.hg/store/00changelog.i', 'wb') as fh:
  ...     fh.write(b'\x00\x00\x00\x02') and None

  $ hg log
  abort: unknown version (2) in revlog 00changelog.i!
  [255]

  $ cd ..

Test for CVE-2016-3630

  $ hg init

  >>> import codecs
  >>> open("a.i", "wb").write(codecs.decode(codecs.decode(
  ... b"""eJxjYGZgZIAAYQYGxhgom+k/FMx8YKx9ZUaKSOyqo4cnuKb8mbqHV5cBCVTMWb1Cwqkhe4Gsg9AD
  ... Joa3dYtcYYYBAQ8Qr4OqZAYRICPTSr5WKd/42rV36d+8/VmrNpv7NP1jQAXrQE4BqQUARngwVA==""",
  ... "base64"), "zlib")) and None

  $ hg debugrevlogindex a.i
     rev linkrev nodeid       p1           p2
       0       2 99e0332bd498 000000000000 000000000000
       1       3 6674f57a23d8 99e0332bd498 000000000000

  >>> from mercurial import revlog, vfs
  >>> tvfs = vfs.vfs(b'.')
  >>> tvfs.options = {b'revlogv1': True}
  >>> rl = revlog.revlog(tvfs, b'a.i')
  >>> rl.revision(1)
  mpatchError(*'patch cannot be decoded'*) (glob)