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).
Make a narrow clone then archive it
$ . "$TESTDIR/narrow-library.sh"
$ hg init master
$ cd master
$ for x in `$TESTDIR/seq.py 3`; do
> echo $x > "f$x"
> hg add "f$x"
> hg commit -m "Add $x"
> done
$ hg serve -a localhost -p $HGPORT1 -d --pid-file=hg.pid
$ cat hg.pid >> "$DAEMON_PIDS"
$ cd ..
$ hg clone --narrow --include f1 --include f2 http://localhost:$HGPORT1/ narrowclone1
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 3 changesets with 2 changes to 2 files
new changesets * (glob)
updating to branch default
2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
The tar should only contain f1 and f2
$ cd narrowclone1
$ hg archive -t tgz repo.tgz
$ tar tfz repo.tgz
repo/f1
repo/f2