config: document the purpose of the `format` config section
The config section now have a top level documentation to clarify its intend and
usage. In particular, user are now explain when the option are taken in account
and how to convert repository.
There are an handful of experimental options in this section that does not match
its definition. They should be relocated to other section before getting out of
experimental. (see next changeset for one example).
Source bundle was generated with the following script:
# hg init
# echo a > a
# ln -s a l
# hg ci -Ama -d'0 0'
# mkdir b
# echo a > b/a
# chmod +x b/a
# hg ci -Amb -d'1 0'
$ hg init
$ hg unbundle "$TESTDIR/bundles/test-manifest.hg"
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 2 changesets with 3 changes to 3 files
new changesets b73562a03cfe:5bdc995175ba
(run 'hg update' to get a working copy)
The next call is expected to return nothing:
$ hg manifest
$ hg co
3 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg manifest
a
b/a
l
$ hg files -vr .
2 a
2 x b/a
1 l l
$ hg files -r . -X b
a
l
$ hg files -T '{path} {size} {flags}\n'
a 2
b/a 2 x
l 1 l
$ hg files -T '{path} {node|shortest}\n' -r.
a 5bdc
b/a 5bdc
l 5bdc
$ hg manifest -v
644 a
755 * b/a
644 @ l
$ hg manifest -T '{path} {rev}\n'
a 1
b/a 1
l 1
$ hg manifest --debug
b789fdd96dc2f3bd229c1dd8eedf0fc60e2b68e3 644 a
b789fdd96dc2f3bd229c1dd8eedf0fc60e2b68e3 755 * b/a
047b75c6d7a3ef6a2243bd0e99f94f6ea6683597 644 @ l
$ hg manifest -r 0
a
l
$ hg manifest -r 1
a
b/a
l
$ hg manifest -r tip
a
b/a
l
$ hg manifest tip
a
b/a
l
$ hg manifest --all
a
b/a
l
The next two calls are expected to abort:
$ hg manifest -r 2
abort: unknown revision '2'!
[255]
$ hg manifest -r tip tip
abort: please specify just one revision
[255]