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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.

Test applying context diffs

  $ cat > writepatterns.py <<EOF
  > import sys
  > 
  > path = sys.argv[1]
  > lasteol = sys.argv[2] == '1'
  > patterns = sys.argv[3:]
  > 
  > fp = file(path, 'wb')
  > for i, pattern in enumerate(patterns):
  >     count = int(pattern[0:-1])
  >     char = pattern[-1] + '\n'
  >     if not lasteol and i == len(patterns) - 1:
  >         fp.write((char*count)[:-1])
  >     else:
  >         fp.write(char*count)
  > fp.close()
  > EOF
  $ cat > cat.py <<EOF
  > import sys
  > sys.stdout.write(repr(file(sys.argv[1], 'rb').read()) + '\n')
  > EOF

Initialize the test repository

  $ hg init repo
  $ cd repo
  $ python ../writepatterns.py a 0 5A 1B 5C 1D
  $ python ../writepatterns.py b 1 1A 1B
  $ python ../writepatterns.py c 1 5A
  $ python ../writepatterns.py d 1 5A 1B
  $ hg add
  adding a
  adding b
  adding c
  adding d
  $ hg ci -m addfiles

Add file, missing a last end of line

  $ hg import --no-commit - <<EOF
  > *** /dev/null	2010-10-16 18:05:49.000000000 +0200
  > --- b/newnoeol	2010-10-16 18:23:26.000000000 +0200
  > ***************
  > *** 0 ****
  > --- 1,2 ----
  > + a
  > + b
  > \ No newline at end of file
  > *** a/a	Sat Oct 16 16:35:51 2010
  > --- b/a	Sat Oct 16 16:35:51 2010
  > ***************
  > *** 3,12 ****
  >   A
  >   A
  >   A
  > ! B
  >   C
  >   C
  >   C
  >   C
  >   C
  > ! D
  > \ No newline at end of file
  > --- 3,13 ----
  >   A
  >   A
  >   A
  > ! E
  >   C
  >   C
  >   C
  >   C
  >   C
  > ! F
  > ! F
  > 
  > *** a/b	2010-10-16 18:40:38.000000000 +0200
  > --- /dev/null	2010-10-16 18:05:49.000000000 +0200
  > ***************
  > *** 1,2 ****
  > - A
  > - B
  > --- 0 ----
  > *** a/c	Sat Oct 16 21:34:26 2010
  > --- b/c	Sat Oct 16 21:34:27 2010
  > ***************
  > *** 3,5 ****
  > --- 3,7 ----
  >   A
  >   A
  >   A
  > + B
  > + B
  > *** a/d	Sat Oct 16 21:47:20 2010
  > --- b/d	Sat Oct 16 21:47:22 2010
  > ***************
  > *** 2,6 ****
  >   A
  >   A
  >   A
  > - A
  > - B
  > --- 2,4 ----
  > EOF
  applying patch from stdin
  $ hg st
  M a
  M c
  M d
  A newnoeol
  R b

What's in a

  $ python ../cat.py a
  'A\nA\nA\nA\nA\nE\nC\nC\nC\nC\nC\nF\nF\n'
  $ python ../cat.py newnoeol
  'a\nb'
  $ python ../cat.py c
  'A\nA\nA\nA\nA\nB\nB\n'
  $ python ../cat.py d
  'A\nA\nA\nA\n'

  $ cd ..