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help: add documentation for changegroup formats

There is no formal location for spec-like technical/internal docs. The
repository makes sense as such a location because spec-like
documentation should be reviewed (ruling out a wiki). mpm has also
stated that he would like this documentation to be part of the
built-in help system. So, we establish an "internals" sub-directory
to hold this class of documentation.

The format of changegroups does not appear to be documented anywhere,
even in source code. It therefore seemed like an appropriate first thing
to document.

This patch adds low-level documentation of versions 1 and 2 of the
changegroup foromat. It currently only describes the raw data format.
There is probably room to write higher-level documentation on strategies
for producing and consuming the data. We'll leave that for another day.

The added file is not yet accessible via `hg help` nor via hgweb.
Support for this will follow in subsequent patches.

Set vars:

  $ CONTRIBDIR="$TESTDIR/../contrib"

Prepare repo-a:

  $ hg init repo-a
  $ cd repo-a

  $ echo this is file a > a
  $ hg add a
  $ hg commit -m first

  $ echo adding to file a >> a
  $ hg commit -m second

  $ echo adding more to file a >> a
  $ hg commit -m third

  $ hg verify
  checking changesets
  checking manifests
  crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
  checking files
  1 files, 3 changesets, 3 total revisions

Dumping revlog of file a to stdout:

  $ python "$CONTRIBDIR/dumprevlog" .hg/store/data/a.i
  file: .hg/store/data/a.i
  node: 183d2312b35066fb6b3b449b84efc370d50993d0
  linkrev: 0
  parents: 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
  length: 15
  -start-
  this is file a
  
  -end-
  node: b1047953b6e6b633c0d8197eaa5116fbdfd3095b
  linkrev: 1
  parents: 183d2312b35066fb6b3b449b84efc370d50993d0 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
  length: 32
  -start-
  this is file a
  adding to file a
  
  -end-
  node: 8c4fd1f7129b8cdec6c7f58bf48fb5237a4030c1
  linkrev: 2
  parents: b1047953b6e6b633c0d8197eaa5116fbdfd3095b 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
  length: 54
  -start-
  this is file a
  adding to file a
  adding more to file a
  
  -end-

Dump all revlogs to file repo.dump:

  $ find .hg/store -name "*.i" | sort | xargs python "$CONTRIBDIR/dumprevlog" > ../repo.dump
  $ cd ..

Undumping into repo-b:

  $ hg init repo-b
  $ cd repo-b
  $ python "$CONTRIBDIR/undumprevlog" < ../repo.dump
  .hg/store/00changelog.i
  .hg/store/00manifest.i
  .hg/store/data/a.i
  $ cd ..

Rebuild fncache with clone --pull:

  $ hg clone --pull -U repo-b repo-c
  requesting all changes
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 3 changesets with 3 changes to 1 files

Verify:

  $ hg -R repo-c verify
  checking changesets
  checking manifests
  crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
  checking files
  1 files, 3 changesets, 3 total revisions

Compare repos:

  $ hg -R repo-c incoming repo-a
  comparing with repo-a
  searching for changes
  no changes found
  [1]

  $ hg -R repo-a incoming repo-c
  comparing with repo-c
  searching for changes
  no changes found
  [1]

Test simplemerge command:

  $ cp "$CONTRIBDIR/simplemerge" .
  $ echo base > base
  $ echo local > local
  $ cat base >> local
  $ cp local orig
  $ cat base > other
  $ echo other >> other

changing local directly

  $ python simplemerge local base other && echo "merge succeeded"
  merge succeeded
  $ cat local
  local
  base
  other
  $ cp orig local

printing to stdout

  $ python simplemerge -p local base other
  local
  base
  other

local:

  $ cat local
  local
  base

conflicts

  $ cp base conflict-local
  $ cp other conflict-other
  $ echo not other >> conflict-local
  $ echo end >> conflict-local
  $ echo end >> conflict-other

  $ python simplemerge -p conflict-local base conflict-other
  base
  <<<<<<< conflict-local
  not other
  end
  =======
  other
  end
  >>>>>>> conflict-other
  [1]

1 label

  $ python simplemerge -p -L foo conflict-local base conflict-other
  base
  <<<<<<< foo
  not other
  end
  =======
  other
  end
  >>>>>>> conflict-other
  [1]

2 labels

  $ python simplemerge -p -L foo -L bar conflict-local base conflict-other
  base
  <<<<<<< foo
  not other
  end
  =======
  other
  end
  >>>>>>> bar
  [1]

3 labels

  $ python simplemerge -p -L foo -L bar -L base conflict-local base conflict-other
  base
  <<<<<<< foo
  not other
  end
  ||||||| base
  =======
  other
  end
  >>>>>>> bar
  [1]

too many labels

  $ python simplemerge -p -L foo -L bar -L baz -L buz conflict-local base conflict-other
  abort: can only specify three labels.
  [255]

binary file

  $ $PYTHON -c "f = file('binary-local', 'w'); f.write('\x00'); f.close()"
  $ cat orig >> binary-local
  $ python simplemerge -p binary-local base other
  warning: binary-local looks like a binary file.
  [1]

binary file --text

  $ python simplemerge -a -p binary-local base other 2>&1
  warning: binary-local looks like a binary file.
  \x00local (esc)
  base
  other

help

  $ python simplemerge --help
  simplemerge [OPTS] LOCAL BASE OTHER
  
      Simple three-way file merge utility with a minimal feature set.
  
      Apply to LOCAL the changes necessary to go from BASE to OTHER.
  
      By default, LOCAL is overwritten with the results of this operation.
  
  options:
   -L --label       labels to use on conflict markers
   -a --text        treat all files as text
   -p --print       print results instead of overwriting LOCAL
      --no-minimal  no effect (DEPRECATED)
   -h --help        display help and exit
   -q --quiet       suppress output

wrong number of arguments

  $ python simplemerge
  simplemerge: wrong number of arguments
  simplemerge [OPTS] LOCAL BASE OTHER
  
      Simple three-way file merge utility with a minimal feature set.
  
      Apply to LOCAL the changes necessary to go from BASE to OTHER.
  
      By default, LOCAL is overwritten with the results of this operation.
  
  options:
   -L --label       labels to use on conflict markers
   -a --text        treat all files as text
   -p --print       print results instead of overwriting LOCAL
      --no-minimal  no effect (DEPRECATED)
   -h --help        display help and exit
   -q --quiet       suppress output
  [1]

bad option

  $ python simplemerge --foo -p local base other
  simplemerge: option --foo not recognized
  simplemerge [OPTS] LOCAL BASE OTHER
  
      Simple three-way file merge utility with a minimal feature set.
  
      Apply to LOCAL the changes necessary to go from BASE to OTHER.
  
      By default, LOCAL is overwritten with the results of this operation.
  
  options:
   -L --label       labels to use on conflict markers
   -a --text        treat all files as text
   -p --print       print results instead of overwriting LOCAL
      --no-minimal  no effect (DEPRECATED)
   -h --help        display help and exit
   -q --quiet       suppress output
  [1]