Change standard streams mode to binary at hg startup
Standard streams are expected to operate in binary mode everywhere, especially with archive, cat, diff and export commands. Rewriting these to separate informational output from binary content is complicated to do and to maintain, nonwithstanding mode switching reliability. Changing all output mode to binary should not have much impact on Windows were stream processing tools are barely used and usually cope with unix style endings.
Streams mode being process wide, the switch is performed in the startup script to avoid polluting existing API users who may have solved this issue already or ignored it at least for the mercurial part.
#!/bin/sh
#
# Corrupt an hg repo with two pulls.
#
# create one repo with a long history
hg init source1
cd source1
touch foo
hg add foo
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10; do
echo $i >> foo
hg ci -m $i
done
cd ..
# create one repo with a shorter history
hg clone -r 0 source1 source2
cd source2
echo a >> foo
hg ci -m a
cd ..
# create a third repo to pull both other repos into it
hg init corrupted
cd corrupted
# use a hook to make the second pull start while the first one is still running
echo '[hooks]' >> .hg/hgrc
echo 'prechangegroup = sleep 5' >> .hg/hgrc
# start a pull...
hg pull ../source1 &
# ... and start another pull before the first one has finished
sleep 1
hg pull ../source2 2>/dev/null
# see the result
wait
hg verify